Customizing the Cocoa Text System (2006) (opens in new tab)

One of the first things I set up on a new Mac is option-f to move-word-forward and option-b to backward. This is so useful that I am doomed to typing ƒ on every other Mac I use temporarily

When I was at uni I took Steve Yegge's Effective Emacs post to heart (https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs), now my most used tweak is:

"^w" = (deleteWordBackward:);

If the state of current (10/11) Windows UI and UX is any indicator it must have gotten much worse since 2008. I would never have done anything that shows a GUI on Windows hadn't I had access to Qt to absolve me from that hell.

Unfortunately it still does, they had a nice thing going with WinRT, .NET Native and C++/CX, and they just messed it all up.

Now imagine the experience porting a NeXTSTEP app into MFC back in the the Windows 98 glory days.

Imagine how it felt in the early 90s!

Really? The built-in Stocks app is a Catalyst app AFAIK. My text system customizations still work in the search bar of the Stocks app.

Thanks for the heads up. My most used feature is a simple remapping of 'backwards delete word', which still seems to work.

For a while I was keenly interested in replacing the underlying text model with my own class, to support some weird stuff I wanted to do. It seemed like it would be straightforward, given the MVC structure, but the documentation confused me and I never quite figured it out. It didn't seem to be something Apple expected anyone to do.

Am i just missing something or do the “command” shortcuts don’t work? Is there an option to enable?

Being able to quickly type text via a real keyboard is quite neat (except for C-Spc switching the input method, turns out I hit that quite a lot), but having to get back to the phone in order to cut/copy/paste is quite frustrating.

I did this via an OSS app https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/