Does Safari in OS X have a keyboard shortcut to complete a URL in the same fashion that Chrome does?
I'd like to be able to type in an incomplete address like askdifferent, press a key combo, and have Safari prefix it with www. and suffix with .com, and automatically navigate to that URL.
I've tried all various combination of fn, control, option,command, and return. Most of them will open your search in a new tab.
Does Safari support this, and what's the key combo?
There IS a way - in Safari Version 10.0.3 at least.
Type a slash ("/") after the domain name. As in,
semiconducted/<enter> will resolve to www.semiconducted.com
Voila!
Safari 8.0 does: Press and hold the Control key for a moment while you’re editing the location and you’ll see the search icon turn into an icon indicating that it’s interpreting the input as (part of) a URL instead of performing a search. The label “Search selected search engine” next to your text will change to “Go to Site” and the ‘Go to Site “your text”’ menu item in the completions list will be selected. Typing Control+Return will navigate there.
By the way, you can use Control+N (next) and Control+P (previous) to navigate through the completions list using the keyboard. (These are emacs-style navigation key bindings.)
Safari doesn't support this out of the box.
You can do this with Keyboard Maestro using a macro such as this:
There are many ways to do this.
You can of course use AutoHotKey(ahk) to define any key combo and mapping you want, which can be used in any text-editing environment, not necessarily in a url bar. So this is an overkill. (Other hotkey apps also work.)
Similar to Internet Explorer(or maybe Chrome, Firefox?), Safari also uses ctrl+enter(or return) as a shortcut to navigate to a website, which is illustrated in Chris Page's answer. However, a slight difference is that, in Safari, you have to hold the ctrl key for a moment(as mentioned in Chris Page's answer), while in Internet Explorer, you can simply hit ctrl+enter immediately after you type the address name, say, you type 'nba' in url bar, then hit ctrl+enter(no pause is needed), it will automatically navigate to www.nba.com . In fact, this shortcut can be found in Internet Explorer's help document.
I'm using macOS Monterey ver. 12.5
Using the forward slash \ after the name of the site seems to work:
Cmd+\+Enter will result in https://www.apple.com/
If you press Shift+Enter, it will open a new window and go to the site.
\ is called the backslash, not the (forward) slash. See Punctuation: Slash