How to find keyboard shortcut for a tool

Does anyone know how to programmatically find the key assignment for a tool?

I took a look, but from what I can tell there's no way to find out for tools, just menus

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here is what I would check in:
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be used. I.e. the ones for removing and adding frames.
I found a PDF online but there are only the english ones.

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to be quite honest i dont no how exactly to do this,
i just know it can be done. i have had no problem
opening .plist files in vi-make sure you are in root
account for system files.
They (the .plist files) don't seem particularly readable in vi -- they seem to contain a lot of binary content. In earlier versions of OS X they were plain text and easily edited.....
Solaris huh? how powerful
is that? i dont know much about solaris . . . . like
to try it though. recommendations?
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