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How to jump one word forward and back with MacBook keyboard

Slip

Slip

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Oct 16, 2007
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Wiltshire, England
I have the new Santa Rosa MacBook and I noticed that when Im doing word processing or other text editing tasks I can't just jump one word back if I made an error for example.
If I use Cmd + Left it takes me to the start of that line but I was wondering how I jumped just the one word.
Thanks.
 
that bugged me for a while too; Psychofreak's tip above will work just fine for that.

FYI, the same can be used for deleting text (option-delete to remove the word, cmd-delete to remove from the cursor to the beginning of the current line)
 
Slip said:
I have the new Santa Rosa MacBook and I noticed that when Im doing word processing or other text editing tasks I can't just jump one word back if I made an error for example.
If I use Cmd + Left it takes me to the start of that line but I was wondering how I jumped just the one word.
Thanks.
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I think this is the basic function of 'vi'.
 
Similar question: I have Spaces set up to switch with cmd - arrow keys (the only way to move around using just one hand). So now I don't know how to jump to the end/beginning of the line. It takes forever with option - arrow keys. Any suggestions?
 
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