Civilization – How to modify the Civilization IV keyboard commands on OS X

civilization-4keyboardmacos

I play on a MacBook Pro, so I have no number pad. Ideally I'd love to be able to play completely keyboard based, with movement keys similar to 'vi' (hjkl, etc).

I really want to be able to natively edit the key bindings that execute in-game, not run os level software.

Best Answer

I think keyremap4macbook might help you. It can enable a number pad. It's how i played civIV. I believe, you just need to press the fn pressing the "numpad" keys.

General Hotkeys

F1         Civilopedia
F2         Economic info
F3         Military info
F4         Diplomacy info
F5         Social Policies Screen
F6         Tech Screen
F7         Notification Log
F8         Victory Progress
F9         Demographics
F10        Strategic View
F11        Quick Save
F12        Quick Load
G          Hex Grid
Esc        Menu
Enter      End Turn
Period     Next Unit
Comma      Previous Unit
-          Zoom Out
+          Zoom in
Insert     Capital City View
Home       Capital City View
End        Capital City View
Page Up    Zoom in
Page Down  Zoom Out
Ctrl+R     Show Resources Icons
Y          Yield Icons
Ctrl+O     Game Options
Ctrl+S     Save
Ctrl+L     Load
Ctrl+Space End Turn

General Unit Hotkeys

M          Move Mode
E          Explore (Automated)
A          Alert
F          Sleep
Space      Do Nothing
U          Upgrade unit (if in your own territory)

Action Hotkeys

Delete     Delete Unit
Ctrl+A     Attack
Ctrl+B     Ranged
S          Set up Artillery
H          Fortify Until Healed

Air Unit Hotkeys

Alt+R      Rebase Mode
S          Air Strike Mode
Alt+S      Air Sweep
I          Intercept
N          Nuke Mode

Civilian Unit Hotkeys

B          Found City
A          Build Improvements (automated)
R          Construct a Railroad
R          Construct a Road
Alt+R      Route to Mode
Alt+C      Remove a Jungle
Alt+C      Clear a Marsh
T          Construct a Trading Post
H          Construct a Camp
I          Construct a Farm
N          Construct a Mine
P          Construct a Plantation
Q          Construct a Quarry
P          Construct a Pasture
F          Construct a Fort
O          Create a Well
F          Create Fishing Boats
O          Create Offshore Platform
Alt+C      Remove Forest
Backspace  Cancel Last Mission
L          Construct a Lumber Mill
C          Citadel

Have fun =)

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Change the movement keys in NetHack

As far as I know, there's no way to remap the keys outside of a recompiling from source, or a crazy hack like using AutoHotKey to map entirely different keys on the keyboard to hjkl/yubn. Obviously that has side-effects though.

So you have a couple of options:

You may not have an actual numpad, but most laptops have a mode that can "convert" part of the keyboard into a numpad, by holding down the "Fn" key, or using a "Fn Lock" key to toggle it on/off.
Get used to hjkl/yubn, and be glad that if you ever decide to learn how to use vim in the future, you'll already have moving around with hjkl solidly ingrained into your muscle memory.