Change move lines shortcut about tofu HOT 12 CLOSED

Relevant part from the link:

Moving the cursor: move the cursor by character, word, line, etc.

Entity	Direction	Emacs	OS X
char	left	C-b	⌃B	←
	right	C-f	⌃F	→
word	left	M-b	⌃⌥B	⌥←
	right	M-f	⌃⌥F	⌥→
line	begin	C-a	⌃A	⌘←
	end	C-e	⌃E	⌘→
	up	C-p	⌃P	↑
	down	C-n	⌃N	↓
doc	begin	M-<		⌘↑
	end	M->		⌘↓

from tofu.

• Maybe it's a macOS thing? Here's an overview of some arrows that will work in NotepadTextEdit Chrome Atom etc, there's also alt+up/alt+down for moving by paragraph.
• ctrl-shift-up and ctrl-cmd-up seem like the common ones; I don't think I've seen a unified "move word" and "move line"(though sublime "move line" does do "move selection" if applicable)

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That links doesn't seem to work unfortunately.

Another criteria in addition to current defaults is which shortcuts are used most often. I think an editor should handle its shortcuts like Dvorak handles keyboard layout, minimize finger motion for common actions.
The question then also becomes is moving the editor or moving nodes used more. And maybe another idea: Should there be different modes like in VIM (e.g. Reading vs Writing)?

I guess I'm going a little wide on this topic, plenty to explore here 🙈

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My apologies, link should be fixed now.

It is definitely my experience that I read and navigate code more frequently than I modify it :P

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Thanks! Yes I think I'd agree that reading is the more common activity, I value perspectives that are different from mine on this, as I'm mostly reading code using a touchpad (and IntelliJ's "go to definition"), which is the most natural way to do it for me, but I realize that most people are probably using their keyboard for it.

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Oh I just realized that on Mac's Cmd + Arrow is used for word navigation, whereas on Windows Ctrl + Arrow is used. And that's despite Mac's having a ctrl key? I guess tofu needs different layouts by OS then, so how about Ctrl + Arrow on Mac?

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Mac's Ctrl + Arrow is virtual desktop switching unfortunately ^-^

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(like it is generally an oversimplification but not completely inaccurate to say that, for graphical applications, on Mac cmd means ctrl and ctrl means win)

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Oh noes, what a shortcut hungry OS 😋 I guess going with your original recommendation of ctrl+cmd+arrow sounds the wisest then!

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Or hm I don't think "Mac's Cmd + Arrow is used for word navigation" is exactly right, cmd arrow is beginning/end of line/document looks like?

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Ah right, there's no Home/End keys on Mac keyboards

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I think fn+arrow might be the same as cmd?

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