A "Hide Illustrator" keyboard shortcut

Photoshop gives you Cmd-Ctrl-H as the keyboard shortcut for Hide Photoshop, but when I try to do the same in Illustrator, it says "The key pressed cannot be used as a shortcut."

Consistency across the same suite of apps anyone? .... Anyone...?   Adobe ??

On a Mac, with AI active and Option-click on the desktop Hides AI.

That's just inherent OS X behaviour. Every application on a Mac will do that by default. What we want is a keyboard shortcut that makes sense.

Photoshop gives you Cmd-Ctrl-H as the keyboard shortcut for Hide Photoshop...

Wasn’t that Cmd/Ctrl+H? Cmd on a Mac or Ctrl on Windows.

You can make your own keyboard shortcut in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Menu Commands (on a Mac the Control key is not allowed for shortcuts).

It asks you on first usage if you want to use it for Hide Photoshop or Hide Selection. If you choose Hide Selection then I think it automatically assigns Hide Photoshop to Cmd+Ctrl+H. In Photoshop Elephants, this is the default.

Since Apple introduced the Cmd-H systemwide shortcut after many popular applications had established their own use for it, the fallback shortcut is usually Cmd-Ctrl-H. But not Illustrator. For some reason you're not allowed to create any shortcuts that use the Ctrl key.

Just try combinations of keys until you hit on something that doesn’t interfere with other commonly used key commands.

The letter I (for Illie) doesn’t seem to be used much except for showing/hiding hidden characters (Cmd+Option+I)

Add Shift and you’re probably in the clear.

I have altered many of my keyboard shortcuts to suit my own purposes (Cmd+U for Ungroup and so on), keeping 2-key shortcuts for the most commonly used commands and 3-keys for those more seldom used. Some of the default shortcuts for common commands are  unnecessarily complicated.

This is an old thread, but this also aggravated me. Given the date of the original posting, you probably know that updating the keyboard commands is the solution, depending on how prolific your use of the Hide Edges shortcut is. I don't personally use that command, so reassigned it via Keyboard Commands > Menu Commands > Hide Illustrator, then deactivated the Hide Edges conflict. Everyone has different methods of working, but this works for me, and it's satisfyingly succinct to just hide-hide-hide the CC apps in quick succession.

All probably old news now, I suspect.

I also reassigned the keyboard shortcut Cmd+H to Hide Illustrator from Hide Edges, which I don't use.  I was not sure what to do when I went to the "conflict" and was asked to "change key set file"  I typed in Hide Illustrator which is the name of the keyboard shortcut.  It worked, but I'm not certain of the logic.

Best thing adobe could do is limit shortcuts to total of five - Maximum,

This would help the nutters who get a huge  thrill out of knowing 256 of them, to get  a life...

''Oooow look at me, LOOK AT ME

On my Mac I just typed an illustration out -  like  totally on my keyboard !!!

From start to finish, and even  shaved 3 seconds of the time it would take using the mouse

So what if my fingers are all cramped up;

I'm the keyboard typist queen! ''

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery

asking for ever more shortcuts is a ticket to madness