Drives me crazy every time, given that command + backspace deletes a word (and command +del deletes a word in the other direction).
Drives me crazy every time, given that command + backspace deletes a word (and command +del deletes a word in the other direction).
Option + Shift + arrows: select by word
Cmd + arrows: move to the end of the line
Cmd + Shift + arrows: select to the end of the line
Additionally you can still use the decades old Ctrl+A/Ctrl+E shortcuts almost everywhere (some custom text input reimplementations ignore this).
Shift + End: Select to the end of the line Home + End: Select to the beginning of the line Home or End: Move to beginning or end of line respectively.
What's worse is when I plug in a keyboard with Home and End buttons on a recent Macbook Pro they still don't work. Do I need another plugin for that? Even if I do personally I don't find the Mac keyboard shortcuts better than Linux/Windows. Tbh after using Mac for 2 years running now every day at work I still don't quite get how people find it easier - I still wish personally for a Linux or even Windows machine to speed up my productivity.
And that's because people prefer what they are familiar with them - the mental leap to jump to another way of working for most people isn't pleasant and isn't really worth the investment. Mac still feels like a "second language" to me just as Linux must feel to mac users - I'm always translating it back to "how do I do this Linux/Windows thing" in Mac. In the end Linux, Windows, and Mac are perfectly capable OS'es and the differences is marginal between them which makes switching difficult. But I do prefer my Linux machine these days - more just comes out of the box.
On Windows the Window key is essentially removed from keyboard.
On Linux you can use the Meta key, but I don't know how common that is.
I find myself using a much wider range of shortcuts on Mac than on Windows or on Linux (though I rarely use Linux these days).
It's a personal feeling, not real data :)
How to delete word (back and forward?), maybe it's that one.
These are in fact Emacs keybindings and they date from early NeXTstep. OS X inherited them from NeXT.
I think you’re misremembering here, I don’t think there are any macOS keyboard shortcuts that work like this. It’s always shift plus the original keyboard shortcut to select.