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I often go through sentences word-by-word, using Command+Arrow Keys.
However, when there is a word in camel case (e.g. "AppleForumsQuestion.txt", in filenames or so), that won't work – Command+Arrow Keys only snaps to spaces.
Is there any (system-wide, ideally) way to make it move the cursor to the individual "words" of also camel-case expressions?
Here's how you can get ⌃ Control+arrow keys to work like you describe. Copy the following property list into ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict (you can create the directory if it doesn't already exist):
{
"^\UF703" = ("moveWordForward:", "moveWordForward:", "moveWordBackward:");
"^$\UF703" = ("moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:", "moveWordForwardAndModifySelection:", "moveWordBackwardAndModifySelection:");
}
This will set up ⌃ Control+arrow to navigate to the beginning of the next word (by using OS X's normal navigation three times: to the end of the current word, end of the next word, then back to the beginning of the next word). I also included a version that works with ⇧ Shift so you can select text as you go.
Caveat: this will only work in Cocoa apps, but I think the normal ⌥ Option+arrow navigation does too. Also, make sure to relaunch your apps!
⌘← 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.
Best Answer
⌃← and ⌃→ do that by default in many code editors like Xcode, TextMate, Sublime Text, and BBEdit. (If you have disabled the shortcuts for changing desktops.) You can change the shortcuts in TextMate by overriding KeyBindings.dict.
I have tried adding something like this to DefaultKeyBinding.dict:
It doesn't work in other applications though. And ⌘← and ⌘→ can't even be reassigned in DefaultKeyBinding.dict.