Tired of testing of <ctrl><alt><cmd> with the left or right arrow key to find out how to move the cursor word by word for moving the input mark or for extending the character selection?
Maybe the small table below is a useful word-by-word and beginning/end of line movement reminder for you when working with Mac OS X:
| Application | Version | move cursor w/w | change selection w/w | move cursor b/eol | change selection b/eol |
| Textedit | 1.5 | <alt> | <shift><alt> | <cmd> | <shift><cmd> |
| Firefox | 3.0.5 | <alt> | <shift><alt> | ? | ? |
| Mac Mail | 3.5 | <alt> | <shift><alt> | <cmd> | <shift><cmd> |
| StarOffice | 9 | <alt> | <shift><cmd> | <cmd> | ? |
| NeoOffice | 2.2.5 | <cmd> | <shift><cmd> | <fn> | <shift><fn> |
| Adium | 1.3.2 | <alt> | <shift><alt> | <ctrl> | <shift><ctrl> |
| Nedit (X11) | ? | <ctrl> | <shift><ctrl> | ? | ? |
Bernd Finger's Blog 
January 21, 2009 at 4:48 am |
Another for you :-
Textmate v1.5.8: move cursor w/w – ALT, change selection w/w – SHIFT + ALT, move cursor b/eol – CMD, change selection b/eol – CMD + SHIFT
BTW, Safari (and any Cocoa app) also use the above as they are defined in Apple’s Styleguide. Deviation is basically a function of platform origination 😉
Craig