Where is the tilde symbol (~) located on a Swiss mac keyboard? Is there a shortcut to easily generate it?
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And you can edit this in your general settings > keyboard > shortcut to suit your needs.
The "~" key is located between the "left shift" and "Z" keys on the international english keyboard.
Many users are used to have this key under the escape key (the US layout), and they (including me) use the KeyRemap4MacBook software to swap those keys.
Edit: KeyRemap4MacBook is now called Karabiner. Here is a screenshot of the configuration I'm using to remap Section to Backquote key.
Edit: Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra, however a new project is in development: Karabiner Elements. As of now, it can do the replacement in question:
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Best Answer
The tilde symbol ~ is used for representing your home folder on your machine. On a Mac keyboard from Switzerland it can be generated with the following shortcut:
alt+n