If you do the emacs tutorial (in the menu), you'll find a lot of the ctrl- keystrokes work in osx textboxes, which is surprisingly handy. ctrl-n, next line; ctr

If you do the emacs tutorial (in the menu), you'll find a lot of the ctrl- keystrokes work in osx textboxes, which is surprisingly handy. ctrl-n, next line; ctrl-p, previous line; ctrl-k, cut to end of line, ctrl-y yank the text back (but there's no full kill-ring) a bunch of them work in bash too, ctrl-r for reverse i-search of your history. You probably already know more than you think, and learning 10-15 basic commands will get you a whole bunch of utility all over the place.