Mac: "Cmd + D" for "No" button in dialogs

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I have a suggestion for an additional keyboard shortcut for the Mac version. I’m using Audacity 2.4.2 with macOS 10.12.6

When you close a project, a dialog appears asking you if you’d like to save your work.
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Following Mac conventions, currently the Escape key is bound to the “Cancel” button and the Return and Enter keys are bound to the “Yes” button.

I suggest following convention and binding Cmd-D to the “No” button. That’s the key combination typically used across Mac applications (the “d” refers to “Don’t Save” following the typical macOS wording).

I saw the preferences to customize the keyboard shortcuts used for the various menu options, but didn’t find a way to add one to this situation myself. Thanks!

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I’ve updated the topic title and moved the topic to the “feature requests” part of the forum.

I wasn’t aware of that convention. Also surprised that it’s not listed here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201236

How common is that convention?
I’ve just tested with TextEdit, Safari and GarageBand, and none of them appear to have that shortcut.

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Interesting. I use it frequently in Apple Mail, TextWrangler/BBEdit and Microsoft Office products.

I found a reference here: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/windows-and-views/alerts/ though it mentions it a little differently.

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I’m using Big Sur, and Apple have completely changed the confirmation dialog. It now has three large buttons in a vertical column. From the keyboard, to select “No”, it’s “Shift + Tab” then “Enter”, or “Tab” twice then “Enter”. This is a macOS change rather than an Audacity change.

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So that means we can add you to the list of people who would just as soon that nag panel in its present form went away?

Koz

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Sure…at least for the cases where all I’ve done is open an MP3 to play (if you’re able to separate that from actually making edits, etc.)

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I think that would be good.


That should be possible.

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Hello,

Is there any update to being able to use ctrl-D (or any other keyboard combination) to say no to the dialog box? Being able to just say don’t save using only the keyboard would be really useful.

Thanks!