Keyboard Text Navigation in OSX.

Posted by admin on December 16th, 2007 filed in OS X

Having recently switched to a MacBook from Windows. I was becoming continually frustrated navigating text with the keyboard. I really missed my “DELETE” button from my old Acer. Finally I browsed around and found a bunch of useful keyboard shortcuts for OSX that make navigating text much easier.

- Func + Delete(Backspace): Deletes characters in front of the cursor. (Like the Windows Delete Key)

- Cmd + (Left | Right): Move to the beginning or end of the current line.

- Cmd + (Up | Down): Move to the beginning or end of the document.

- Opt + (Left | Right): Move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current word

- Opt + (Up | Down): Move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current paragraph.

- Opt + Delete: Delete to the beginning of the word.

Use shift with any of these combinations to select text.

Any others?


2 Responses to “Keyboard Text Navigation in OSX.”

  1. Hugo Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 4:46 am

    Alt + Delete : Deletes the entire word ;)

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