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One handy thing is that because OS X uses Command for most of its window-management and application hot-keys, control + key is almost always unmasked by the app
by Periodic 15y ago
One handy thing is that because OS X uses Command for most of its window-management and application hot-keys, control + key is almost always unmasked by the application. Why is this important? Control-A and Control-E work in almost any text input! They work in Adium, they work in Chrome for the location bar and this textarea, and I'm sure many others.
I was pleasantly surprised because the Windows/Linux systems tend to mask Control-A for select-all.
- pyre 15y agoAll native text inputs support Emacs keybindings. The only rub is that you need to use Ctrl + Option to Meta.
- Periodic 15y agoTo me I think of it as Bash bindings, because that is where I learned them. For text editing I've been using vim bindings, but I never found the vim mode to work quite like I want it to on the terminal. I should look into that more.
- anigbrowl 15y agoI was pleasantly surprised because the Windows/Linux systems tend to mask Control-A for select-all. Linux maybe. I have never had it fail in windows and think you may be misremembering how it works.
- Periodic 15y agoI mean they mask control-A to select all instead of moving the cursor to the beginning of the line.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoThat's because control-A is supposed to select all on Windows.
- sjs 15y agoThey work in every Cocoa text field. Ctrl-[abefnp] ... not sure if I missed any. Those are the ones I use daily.