Take the 2-minute tour ×

Is there a keyboard shortcut in OSX to 'skip' or tab back through the fragments of a word?

e.g.: 'post_text'

if your cursor is after the final 't', can you skip back to the _ and then back to the p?

(Maybe I'm just missing vi..)

share|improve this question

migrated from stackoverflow.com Sep 9 '12 at 16:25

This question came from our site for professional and enthusiast programmers.

1 Answer 1

up vote 1 down vote accepted

This mostly depends on the app, but Xcode and Sublime Text 2 support the Ctrl + Arrow keys to go between subwords.

share|improve this answer
To skip to beginning and end of line - use <kbd>Cmd</kbd> + Arrow keys. –  Eimantas Sep 9 '12 at 14:16

Your Answer


