![]() Options, if you will.Īpple needed a symbol for Command, so a woman at Apple came up with the “cloverleaf” symbol. Imagine a teensy train coming from the left it has two possible ways to go. The option symbol, as someone noted, looks like a railroad switch. It goes all the way back to the days when Alan Turing said, “Let there be computers.” And there were. ![]() The light, caret-like symbol is perfect for Control. ![]() Run the terminal and type “nano” to see this convention in action. In days of yore, when dinosaurs weren’t just in zoos and computers only had text-based applications, and screen space was at a premium, the caret was used to indicate control: ^C was control C for example. Thanks to Lri for posting these secondary symbols in the comments. The above list is the standard keyboard symbols for most keyboard shortcuts, below is a more complete list of some of the symbols that appear elsewhere in menus and the keys they map to. ![]() The standard keyboard symbols you’ll encounter on most Mac and Apple keyboards are as follows, but we have a complete list below as well: I’ve been using Macs since I was a little kid and the Option and Control key symbols have always perplexed me to the point where I’ll forget which each is, and that is precisely why Apple is gradually moving to the labeled keys rather than symbol keys. Now you know, but if the symbols confuse you, don’t feel too bad about it. ![]()
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