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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by foldr on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:46AM (#17417869)
The text selection shortcuts are completely consistent on modern OS X, in my experience. At least, I can't find an app where shift+alt+right_arrow doesn't select a word.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by reitanqild on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:39PM (#17418932)
I've moved on but between 2009 and 2012 this changed from application to application.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by yellowapple on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:58PM (#17418591)
I've also yet to find an instance in macOS where Emacs-style text navigation shortcuts didn't Just Work™ automatically. One of the few things about macOS that I actually like relative to the average Unix/Linux desktop.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by jjtheblunt on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @03:17PM (#17452899)
they have been for 30 years, NeXTstep and non-NeXTstep MacOS. I think Larry Teslar of Apple (long ago now) was part of that. Also, TextFields in the NeXT and now Apple codebase know various Emacs key bindings by default.
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