Hide commands

Commands for hiding the active program, or hiding everything else but the active program, have moved from the old Application menu (on the far right of the menu bar) to the new Application menu (the one on the left next to the a menu) that bears the name of the frontmost program. Hiding the current program also now has an official keyboard shortcut (in most programs): c-H. And hiding all other programs has a keyboard shortcut, too, although it works in even fewer programs: Option-c-H.

Then there's Exposé, which can make the whole concept of hiding programs obsolete (Section 5.3).

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