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Sorry, I’m using a German keyboard. Didn’t actually think of that – the German keyboard layout seems to get you inconsistent shortcuts.

(Now I know why the terminal has those weird command+Ö and command+Ä shortcuts, Ö and Ä are presumably where { and } are when you use the US keyboard layout. Those pesky umlauts. By the way, { and } are alt+8 and alt+9 – also where the normal brackets are when using shift – on a German keyboard. Oh, and command+Ö or command+Ä totally don’t work in Safari. You have to use ctrl+tab.)

My friend is using a German keyboard on his MBP. He is thinking about buying a wired Apple English keyboard and exchange all the key caps with the MBP and then use English keyboard. Not sure if this will work, but then the keys will be white instead of the default black ...

Sadly doesn't work in Chrome, Textmate or Papers.

it doesn't work in textmate (cmd+opt+<- and cmd+opt+->). seems to work in almost every other app though.

Hm totally forgot about this one. This does work in Safari and Terminal, but doesn't in MacVim. Cmd+{/} work in all three.

I guess pick the shortcuts that cover the largest subset of apps you care about.