[X4U] Altering Keyboard Shortcut

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 12 12:09:03 PDT 2005


On 8/12/05 11:44 AM, Doug McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:

> At 10:46 -0700 8/12/05, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
>> Now that Tiger uses binary preference files instead of xml, I can't use
>> TextEdit to paste the info from the system-created file to the actual one
>> (please correct me if I'm wrong).
>> 
>> How can I get that shortcut back?
> 
> You can try using Apple's plist editor. I believe the plists are compressed as
> opposed to encrypted. It's apparently for speed and I'm pretty sure
> applications will read either compressed or uncompressed plists. - at least
> for now.

>From what I understand, I can only use Apple's plist editor if I install the
Developer tools, is that correct? If I could edit the plist without
installing ALL of the developer tools, I would certainly be more willing to
do this. Is there any way to install Apple's plist editor on its own?
Pacifist, perhaps?

Eddie Hargreaves




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