keyboardmacos
I need combination for selecting all of the text in an edit buffer for an editor like Sublime Text.
On the Windows OSes I would use control + a. On OS X this combination seems to moves cursor to beginning of the current line.
So how do I select all the text in the buffer?
There is a default key binding to perform this function: shift + ⌃ (control) + →.
If this won't serve, you may be interesting in Jacob Rus: Customizing the Cocoa Text System which provides instructions for creating your own keybindings dictionary.
See also:
Apple Mac OS X Developer Library:Text System Defaults and Key Bindings
Ask Different: DefaultKeyBinding.dict - old-style NeXT format vs XML plist format
What if you want to select 78 here (after having pressed ⇧↑)?
Or if you want to select both 12 and 78, on Windows you couldn't press shift+home and shift+end.
Methods like moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection: are unanchored in most applications, which means that they always extend selections. They are actually anchored in Xcode, TextMate, Sublime Text, and BBEdit, but I don't know any way to change the default behavior.
If you just want to make selecting and deleting lines easier, you can create ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like this as DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
{
"~l" = selectParagraph:;
"~z" = (selectParagraph:, deleteBackward:);
"~x" = (selectParagraph:, cut:);
"~c" = (selectParagraph:, copy:);
}
After reopening applications, ⌥L should select a line. See http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html and http://lri.me/keybindings.html for more information.
Best Answer
Hahaha. The answer is simple: it is cmd+a