OS X editing keyboard shortcuts
A quick cheat sheet for Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.
- Command
- The Mac replacement for
control - Option
- Replaces
alt - Control
- Replaces
windows meta - Home / End
- Scrolls window to beginning / end
- Option-left / right
- Cursor to next / previous word
- Option-up / down
- Beginning / end of paragraph
- Option-delete
- Delete to beginning of word
- Option-forward del
- Delete to end of word
- Command-left / right
- Move to beginning / end of line
- Command-up / down
- Beginning / end of document
- Shift + above
- Select text (can be chained too)
- Shift + arrows:
- Same as Windows / Gnome
- Down arrow on last line of text
- End of line
- Up arrow on first line of text
- Beginning of line