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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by Periodic on Saturday November 12, 2011 @01:09PM (#3228377)
One handy thing is that because OS X uses Command for most of its window-management and application hot-keys, control + key is almost always unmasked by the application. Why is this important? Control-A and Control-E work in almost any text input! They work in Adium, they work in Chrome for the location bar and this textarea, and I'm sure many others.

I was pleasantly surprised because the Windows/Linux systems tend to mask Control-A for select-all.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by pyre on Saturday November 12, 2011 @03:09PM (#3228761)
All native text inputs support Emacs keybindings. The only rub is that you need to use Ctrl + Option to Meta.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by Periodic on Saturday November 12, 2011 @04:24PM (#3228957)
To me I think of it as Bash bindings, because that is where I learned them. For text editing I've been using vim bindings, but I never found the vim mode to work quite like I want it to on the terminal. I should look into that more.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by anigbrowl on Saturday November 12, 2011 @03:46PM (#3228858)
I was pleasantly surprised because the Windows/Linux systems tend to mask Control-A for select-all.

Linux maybe. I have never had it fail in windows and think you may be misremembering how it works.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by Periodic on Saturday November 12, 2011 @04:22PM (#3228950)
I mean they mask control-A to select all instead of moving the cursor to the beginning of the line.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by MatthewPhillips on Saturday November 12, 2011 @07:38PM (#3229415)
That's because control-A is supposed to select all on Windows.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. by sjs on Saturday November 12, 2011 @05:48PM (#3229151)
They work in every Cocoa text field. Ctrl-[abefnp] ... not sure if I missed any. Those are the ones I use daily.
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