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That's probably my favorite thing about Macs. The unix/emacs-like keybindings like C-f, C-b, C-n, C-p to move the cursor, C-c to kill a process in the terminal,
by TheCoelacanth 10y ago
That's probably my favorite thing about Macs. The unix/emacs-like keybindings like C-f, C-b, C-n, C-p to move the cursor, C-c to kill a process in the terminal, etc and the Windows-like keybindings like ⌘-c, ⌘-v, ⌘-x for copy, paste, cut, ⌘-n for new window, etc both exist by default without colliding. I can get this on Linux if I spend a week remapping things but not by default. As far as I can tell, there's no way to get this on Windows.
- dnzm 10y agoActually, unless I'm mistaken, the whole z-x-c-v thing was a thing on Macs way before it came to Windows.
- grzm 10y agoThe Unix/emacs-like keybindings are great, aren't they? They're included in the default bindings of the Cocoa text system, and, though I wasn't able to find references to it in the limited searching I did, it's not so surprising given that OS X comes from NeXTSTEP which was a Unix-based system. I did find that you can change these keybindings as well.[0][1] Pretty, cool, eh? Minor pendantic nit: ⌘-C, ⌘-V, ⌘-X originate with Apple, so referring to them as "Windows-like" is backwards.[2] Like I said, minor, eh? Normally I'd suggest alternative wording in the interest of providing constructive criticism, but I'm too lazy to do so right now, so feel free to disregard :) [0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co... [1]: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Popularization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Populariz...