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You have to pay me pretty well to use Mac OS or Windows… and that is what my new employer is doing, so I have started using Mac OS as a daily driver again for the first time in over 15 years. For the most part I have been quite disappointed with how things have changed in that time.

But, I just discovered one little detail in the Mac OS “Text Edit“ application that made my day: it has a few of the Emacs key bindings built-in. You can do Control-N,P,F,B to move the cursor around, Option-Control-F,B to jump around words, and Control-Y to paste text. (Unfortunately, Control-W does not copy text.) I am sure there are a few others, I haven’t bothered to check yet.

Well done, Mac OS engineers.

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