is there a way to add universal shortcuts for input / text fields in OS X and/or chrome itself such as Control + U to delete everything to the left of a line, Control + W to delete the left word etc. or cursor positioning like Control + a to move to beginning of a line?
Mac – Common shell / editor shortcuts for Mac OS X
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In general, you can edit, create and enable/disable keyboard shortcuts using the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard preferences pane.
⌘← can be assigned to \eOH and ⌘→ to \eOF. You could assign ⌥← to \eb like in Terminal, but it doesn't work in vi mode or nano.
In emacs mode you could also add this to .inputrc:
"\e[1;9D": backward-word
"\e[1;9C": forward-word
"\e[3~": kill-word
C-v shows the escape sequence for the next key combination. ^[ is ESC in caret notation. bind -p prints currently bound commands.
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Best Answer
This is definitely possible, see https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html for a good discussion of text system key bindings.
To accomplish what you're after save the following to
~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict: