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> Note: unfortunately, there aren’t any specific keyboard shortcuts for moving windows into the quarter sections of the screen.

I'm surprised The Verge apparently doesn't know that you can create keyboard shortcuts for any Mac menu item, either specific to an app or across apps. You can even override existing shortcuts:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/create-keyboard-sho...

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Except when Apple implements their apps poorly, like Find in Apple Music, whose hot key does not activate the menubar item and thus Cmd-F cannot be rebound. This also makes a lot of Electron apps’ hot keys unable to be rebound as well; VS Code faces this issue.

I don't know what's going on with Apple Music. I can rebind Cmd-F to any of its menu items if I do it for all applications, but not if I target Music specifically.

Music on macOS is really weird architecturally. Parts are native, parts are WebViews, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's even still some bits of code leftover from the days Music/iTunes was still known as SoundJam MP.

They're likely doing something funky to implement its shortcuts because the standard way wouldn't work everywhere in the app.

Ironically, at this point the cleanest implementation of Apple Music might actually be the Windows version, which as far as I can tell is a fresh codebase written exclusively in WinUI/WinAppSDK. Many hoped that the transition from iTunes → Music.app would turn out to be a blank-slate AppKit rewrite on macOS but that's not what we got.

> I'm surprised The Verge apparently doesn't know

Really? Personally, at this point, I'm generally more surprised when they do.

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