There are a lot of emacs keybindings available in OS X's text fields, you can even add your own. Check out http://www.applematters.com/article/emacs-commands-w

There are a lot of emacs keybindings available in OS X's text fields, you can even add your own. Check out http://www.applematters.com/article/emacs-commands-work-in-os-x-how-awesome-is-that/ http://www.applematters.com/article/emacs-commands-work-in-o... and the links in those comments. In particular, the following links are very interesting: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/selectors.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/selectors.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html