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A lot of the Emacs shortcuts work in OS X (most of the system) as well as on Linux (bash and other users of readline).

by koenigdavidmj 13y ago

mikeroher 13y ago
I use Vim and was unaware that this shortcut existed. Are there any other Emacs shortcuts which are useful in OSX?
- 65a 13y ago
  Ctrl-K kill to end of line, so Ctrl-A Ctrl-K will clear a given field
  - Fishkins 13y ago
    And you can Ctrl-Y to paste the line you killed. This is a separate copy/paste buffer from the normal Cmd-C one, which can be nice.
- coliveira 13y ago
  If you do "set -o vi" you can also use vi shortcuts, such as ESC-j,k to go up/down the history, 0 to go to the beginning of the line, etc.
  - pyre 13y ago
    You cannot use 'set -o vi' to turn Cocoa text fields into vi-mode.
- deleted 13y ago
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lr 13y ago
The basic Emacs key-bindings should work in all Cocoa apps. For instance, the URL bar of your web browser, while text editing in just about any editor (maybe even in Office, but I have not tired in a while), etc. Basically, anywhere you have a cursor, the basic line-editing key bindings should work. So, in practical terms, this means you have 1 + n clipboards[1]. The main global GUI clipboard (using the command key), and then an app-specific clipboard (using the control key with Emacs bindings). As a developer, it is extremely helpful to have two clipboards in TextMate, for instance. [1] Technically, the clipboard in OS X maintains a history (not sure what the limit is), but the OS X GUI only exposes the last cut/copied item.
- eddieh 13y ago
  defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -string 4
  - lr 13y ago
    Can you shed some light on how to access those other three from the GUI (whether using the command key or some other means)?
    - eddieh 13y ago
      Sorry forgot some steps...You also have to rebind C-y to 'yankAndSelect:' (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...) For the most in depth info on the Cocoa Text System: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

A lot of the Emacs shortcuts work in OS X (most of the system) as well as on Linux (bash and other users of readline).

mikeroher 13y ago

I use Vim and was unaware that this shortcut existed. Are there any other Emacs shortcuts which are useful in OSX?

65a 13y ago
Ctrl-K kill to end of line, so Ctrl-A Ctrl-K will clear a given field
- Fishkins 13y ago
  And you can Ctrl-Y to paste the line you killed. This is a separate copy/paste buffer from the normal Cmd-C one, which can be nice.
coliveira 13y ago
If you do "set -o vi" you can also use vi shortcuts, such as ESC-j,k to go up/down the history, 0 to go to the beginning of the line, etc.
- pyre 13y ago
  You cannot use 'set -o vi' to turn Cocoa text fields into vi-mode.
deleted 13y ago
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lr 13y ago

The basic Emacs key-bindings should work in all Cocoa apps. For instance, the URL bar of your web browser, while text editing in just about any editor (maybe even in Office, but I have not tired in a while), etc. Basically, anywhere you have a cursor, the basic line-editing key bindings should work. So, in practical terms, this means you have 1 + n clipboards[1]. The main global GUI clipboard (using the command key), and then an app-specific clipboard (using the control key with Emacs bindings). As a developer, it is extremely helpful to have two clipboards in TextMate, for instance. [1] Technically, the clipboard in OS X maintains a history (not sure what the limit is), but the OS X GUI only exposes the last cut/copied item.

eddieh 13y ago
defaults write -g NSTextKillRingSize -string 4
- lr 13y ago
  Can you shed some light on how to access those other three from the GUI (whether using the command key or some other means)?
  - eddieh 13y ago
    Sorry forgot some steps...You also have to rebind C-y to 'yankAndSelect:' (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...) For the most in depth info on the Cocoa Text System: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html