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macOS shortcuts for navigating by paragraph

I like to think of myself as something of a power user of the macOS default keyboard shortcuts, but somehow these have eluded me:

⌥↑ and ⌥↓ (Option-Up and Option-Down) move to the start and end of a paragraph, respectively. And of course you can combine these with the Shift key to easily select entire paragraphs at a time.

So simple. So easy. So useful. Where have I been??

Actually I know where I've been: using the Emacs-derived Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E shortcuts instead. These feel the same as the Option-based shortcuts much of the time. But with the Option-based ones, you can hold Option down and keep tapping the arrow buttons to navigate paragraphs, whereas with the Control-based ones, the cursor sticks to the start or end of the paragraph.

#keyboard-shortcuts #macos