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Let’s say you want to assign a keyboard shortcut within a given app to invoke a menu item.

To illustrate: Assume that you want to map Cmd + Shift + X within Logseq.app to “paste and match style”.

Apple Docs:

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click Keyboard in the sidebar (you may need to scroll down), then click Keyboard Shortcuts.

Select App Shortcuts on the left, click the Add button, click the Application pop-up menu, then choose a specific app or All Applications.

Choose Logseq.App.

In the “Menu title” field, type the menu command for which you want to create a shortcut, exactly as the command appears in the app, including the > character (type ->), ellipses (type three periods without spaces), or other punctuation.

For example, to set a shortcut for the default ligature command in TextEdit (Format > Font > Ligatures > Use Default), type Format->Font->Ligatures->Use Default in the “Menu title” field. To set a shortcut for the Export as PDF command (File > Export as PDF…), type File->Export as PDF… in the field.

Type in Edit->Paste and Match Style, case sensitive, no spaces around the ->.

Click in the “Keyboard shortcut” field, press the key combination that you want to use as the keyboard shortcut, then click Done.

Note: This method doesn’t work if the keyboard shortcut is already mapped within the app.

Credits to David Winterbottom for the idea.