On 2008-Dec-2, at 4:48 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Well, at least a reason: in Snow Leopard Apple wants to allow menu items to trigger without any modifiers at all.
Oh, man. Are we going to have to hit 'a' or 'i' to get into INSERT mode in TextMate? ;)
So Apple want to disable handling of menu item key equivalents (w/o modifiers) when menus are open. This breaks our use of 1-9 as shortcut keys. The present build is a test to see how well that works.
Sounds like a good enough reason to me. Personally, I like the "type a few characters" trick Hans just mentioned better than ⌘1, but from your description, that's going to quit working as well under Snow Leopard. Too bad.