Comments on: 5 PowerTips for Deleting Text

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:59:08 +0000

Over at TUAW I just also discovered that Control D will delete one character forward too: Mac 101: Forward delete on a Mac laptop

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:17:04 +0000

Norman: on a MacBook Pro or MacBook the fn key should be at bottom left of the keyboard, beside the Ctrl and Option keys.

If you don’t have a Mac laptop then you’re likely to have a full size keyboard which should have a Forward Delete key on it.

By: norman Duquette

norman Duquette — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:52:38 +0000

Where is the fn key?

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:28:13 +0000

Hmmm, thanks for the feedback Dan.

I just tested Command Delete in Pages ’09 on my 3.5 year old MacBook Pro 15″. It deleted a whole row of text, as I expected.

By: Dan Shipman

Dan Shipman — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:43:26 +0000

Great tip, but the last one did not work for me: (Cmd-Del = delete entire line to the left of cursor. I am used to using Opt-Shft-arrow keys and the Opt-Cmd-arrow keys, though.)
MacBook Pro 17″ – 2.5-yr-old machine; OS 10.5.8; tried this in Pages 2008

Delete + Key Action
Delete Removes one character to the left of the insertion point
Delete fn Removes one character to the right of the insertion point
Delete Option Removes one word to the left of the insertion point
Delete Option fn Removes one word to the right of the insertion point
Delete Command Removes one line to the left of the insertion point
Try it out, and let us know in the Comments what you find. Are there places where it doesn’t work?

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By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:52 +0000

Thank you Simon. That’s excellent information.

I note though, in testing this, that it seems not to delete to the end of the *line*, as you say, but to the end of the *paragraph*. It may depend on how one defines ‘line’ exactly. :-)

It was interesting to see that Control, combined with various keys, also did things such as deleting forward, making a new paragraph, and so on.

By: Simon Cavalletto

Simon Cavalletto — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:15:15 +0000

In some (many? all?) Mac applications, control-k deletes from the cursor forward to the end of the line.

(Actually, instead of deleting, it actually “cuts” the end of the line, placing the text on an alternate clipboard, separate from the one used by normal command-c/v commands, which can be pasted back in using control-y.)

This keyboard short-cut is inherited from Unix-style terminals via NextStep, which included both Unix-style and Mac-style editing commands.

-Simon

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:05:33 +0000

Thanks for that Jo.

I had thought of saying that with MS Word all bets are off… :-)

Cheers,

Miraz