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I like using ctrl + v on mac for jumping with the cursor to the next screen – something like page down but the cursor moves too.
Do you know any way to do the opposite – jumping to the previous screen – like page up but also with the cursor moving?
I'd love a universal solution – i.e. working in all text boxes.
UPDATE: I've refreshed my mind that there's a key binding in terminals that does exactly what I want and that's meta + v but that doesn't work in all Cocoa text boxes as ctrl + v does.
I just ran into what I think is the same problem when trying to use Ctrl-S under Vim in Terminal.app. I found a related tip indicating that by default, Terminal.app reserves Ctrl-S for old-fashioned XON/XOFF flow control. Adding this line to my .bash_profile -- or just entering it at the prompt -- freed up Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q for use with Vim:
stty -ixon -ixoff
⌃⌥⌘→ (control-option-command-right) makes the selection left to right
⌃⌥⌘← (control-option-command-left) makes the selection right to left
⌃⌘→ (control-command-right) makes the paragraph left to right
⌃⌘← (control-command-left) makes the paragraph right to left
If you didn't choose a right-to-left input source as the default input source when you created your account, you might have to enable the shortcuts from System Preferences:
Best Answer
⌥⇞ and ⌥⇟ (option-page up and option-page up) also move the caret, like ⌃V.
You can make ⌥V scroll a page up and move the caret by saving a property list like this as
~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict:It is also possible to make the page up and page down keys move the caret:
The
pageUp:andpageDown:methods don't do anything in web views (including Safari) or in Numbers though.See http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html or http://lri.me/keybindings.html for more information.
You can also use KeyRemap4MacBook to remap ⌥V to ⇞, or ⇞ and ⇟ to ⌥⇞ and ⌥⇟. See this question.