Are all shortcuts intentional? Sometimes I find some by mistake and just think “was this intentionally created?”
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If you mean stuff like Ctrl-X for cut, Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot, and so on – those are all intentional and it was the designers of the operating system that came up with them. There are some that are pretty old and standard across many systems, and there are others that are newer and more specific. But none of them are accidental since a computer only will do what it was programmed to do. That isn’t to say it’s impossible that pressing some weird key combo that nobody thought of might not do something interesting, but that would be a bug, not intentional.
What do you mean by shortcuts? Could you give an example?
Pretty much everything is fully intentional. The only exception is the rare bug or behaviour that happens to be useful for some unplanned purpose.
They wouldn’t be an accident. They are baked into the software by the programmers. The engineers use what are called listeners that detect certain events. In this case, it would be key events. Once detected, the software runs whatever function was attached to the listener.
Source: me, a software engineer.
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