I've never used emacs - Is that 'select word'? I have that system-wide by putting "^w" = (selectWord:); into '~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict'.

I've never used emacs - Is that 'select word'? I have that system-wide by putting "^w" = (selectWord:); into '~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict'. There's a load of information online about the customisation that can be put in this file. Here's a comment of mine with some links in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718604 Annoyingly, Xcode stopped paying attention to this file at some point around version 4, so now you have to maintain a separate version for that.