Back in Finder

I suppose from the name you are Portuguese or Brazilian.

Well Italian keyboard is obviously different from yours. [ is located next to the P as a third character all togehter the è and é and is obtained pressing alt+è so very similar at what you do.

It works fine as Go Back in a Finder window.

Safari "Go Back" is alt+shift+cmd+M at least in Lion.

luis_afonso wrote:

I know that the shortcut key for back in finder is cmd + [. The problem is that my keyboard doesn'y have a [ printed anywhere and the only way I can get that character is to press alt + 8

You mean ⌥8 (Option-8). There is no Alt key on a Mac keyboard. The Option key may also bear the label "Alt" for use with non-Mac apps or emulators.

Presumably you're using a Portuguese keyboard. Try creating keyboard shortcuts which work for you and the keyboard you're using, as described here

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8564.html>

fane_j wrote:

You mean ⌥8

However laudable your intentions may be to educate everyone on this point, it really doesn't seem helpful to tell people to use the ⌥ key when the standard Apple wireless keyboard sold currently does not have any key with that label on it.

http://www.apple.com/keyboard/

Tom Gewecke wrote:

fane_j wrote:

You mean ⌥8

However laudable your intentions may be to educate everyone on this point, it really doesn't seem helpful to tell people to use the ⌥ key when the standard Apple wireless keyboard sold currently does not have any key with that label on it.

Thank you for your comment.

(1) Your quote was incomplete. I wrote: "You mean ⌥8 (Option-8)".

(2) You will notice in the link you posted that the label on the respective key is "Option".

(3) You will notice that, in the past, it has often been the case that Apple used the text label on keyboards sold in the US and the ⌥ symbol on keyboards sold elsewhere, eg, France. This may or may not be the case with the "standard Apple wireless keyboard sold currently"—perhaps you can elaborate on that.

(4) The OP appears to be using a Portuguese keyboard. If you consult

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2841>

you will notice that the Option key bears the label ⌥ in this localisation. My comments were not addressed urbi et orbi, but to this poster and his specific problem.

(5) AFAICT, Apple documentation uses "Option" and "⌥" interchangeably. Mac OS X menus use ⌥. When Apple documentation drops ⌥ and Option in favour of something else, I'll use that.

(6) If anyone has been inconvenienced by my using Apple terms and symbols when discussing Apple products, that is regrettable. I suggest, however, that the problem may lie in their failure to consult the documentation provided by Apple, rather than in my usage.