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Editing text with Cocoa text shortcuts

Editing text with Cocoa text shortcuts

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Chris Hynes - cricket
Mar 08, 2017
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In any user interface element that accepts text, there are a set of text editing keyboard shortcuts that work in almost every application. Most are not listed in menus or only in certain applications.

Here’s a great link that documents most of the shortcuts. Note that the document is missing a few newer ones and there are a few that have changed since it was published, but this is the best resource I’ve found.

Cocoa Text System

Here’s a subset of them that I find particularly useful.

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