Jacob Rus has an excellent and thorough write up of the Cocoa Text system: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.html http://www.hcs.harva

Jacob Rus has an excellent and thorough write up of the Cocoa Text system: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.... He provides a custom DefaultKeyBinding.dict which adds more emacs keybindings to Cocoa text controls. I've been using it for years: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/KeyBindings/Emacs%20Esc%20Bindings.dict http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/KeyBindings/Emacs%20Es...