Command-H stopped working for show/hide edges in 29.0.1.
Maybe this stopped earlier, I never bothered with any release of 2024.
I've been using Illustrator since 2000 and this hotkey is ingrained into my fingers. I don't care that MacOS wants to use command-hide to hide programs.
Fooling around in Illustrator's keyboard settings reveals that if I set this to something else, I can't even reassign it to command-h.
And annoyingly enough System Settings says that I can't assign custom shortcuts to Illustrator so I can't work around this by assigning nothing to illustrator>hide illustrator. Is this a deliberate choice being made by Adobe, the same way someone decided some hotkeys are completely unchangeable in After Effects? Any other suggested workarounds are welcome.
Margaret Trauth
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A reboot helped to fix the problem.
If you encounter a similar problem — please upvote this and comment.
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Shane
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A reboot did not fix the problem for me. The only way I can hide edges is to physically click on it in the menu. The shortcut still hides the entire program.
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Shane
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When I use command-H to hide edges, the entire program hides. I created my own shortcut to hide Illustrator. I need "command-H" to work properly and hide the edges please. This is very annoying. The problem began upon this last update.
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Margaret Trauth
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Oh, a reboot fixed it. Good. No need to reset my prefs.
I'm leaving this one up in case anyone else gets this one. :)
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Margaret Trauth
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Some asking around suggests that this may just be a My Installation Problem and not an Illustrator 2025 problem. Oh boy I get to try resetting my prefs I guess.
But first I wrote an Applescript that looks at the current menu and figures out if it's "Show Edges" or "Hide Edges" and hits it. Except it takes a half a second when I trigger it via Alfred. Feh.