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The MacNN Obscure keyboard shortcut challenge
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I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut - and it's driving me mad - I can't find it.
It's pretty obscure (and may not even exist any more - I'm pretty sure it's a relic from NeXT) - but I'm sure someone here will remember it.
Basically - in any cocoa text editing area you can press this keyboard shortcut and the two chars either side of the caret will switch - so if you typed teh you could correct it by placing the caret between h and e and invoking the keystroke.
Anyone know this?
Thanks, Digs.
[edit] Grammar.
(Last edited by Diggory Laycock; Mar 5, 2005 at 08:57 PM.
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Control-T. I use it all the time.
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Excellent - Thanks, and wow, that was quick.
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Very neat .... however ... its not really that hard to manually edit a single character typo like that so its no wonder that this shortcut is obscure.
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Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
It's pretty obscure (and may not even exist any more - I'm pretty sure it's a relic from NeXT) - but I'm sure someone here will remember it.
It's an emacs command, some others work as well:
ctrl-a - cursor to start of line
ctrl-e - cursor to end of line
ctrl-f - cursor forward one char
ctrl-b - cursor back one char
anyone know any other useful ones? I'd love forward/back one word, but that needs a META key, and doesn't seem to work in text fields.
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Originally posted by Jellytussle:
<...snip>anyone know any other useful ones? I'd love forward/back one word, but that needs a META key, and doesn't seem to work in text fields.
I don't know the emacs command, but alt+right arrow or alt+left arrow will move you one word backwards or forwards. Command+left or command+right does the same as ctrl+a and ctrl+e, respectively.
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