Since the shortcuts might differ between apps, the overview focuses on regular, OS-compatible shortcuts (of text processing and layout apps like InDesign), and Mac-specific apps (like TextEdit, Safari, Pages). If the shortcuts for the latter differ from the former, they are shown in red.
1. Viewport jump
2. Page jump
3. Jump to the start or end of a line
4. Jump one word to the left or right — note, that the cursor will ignore spaces and land at the beginning of words
5. Jump one paragraph down
6. Jump one paragraph up
7. Jump to the start of the current text flow
8. Jump to the end of the current text flow
9. Select a character to the left or right
10. Select words to the left of the cursor
11. Select words to the right of the cursor
12. Select from cursor to the start of the line
13. Select from cursor to the end of the line
14. Select line until the character above or below the cursor
15. Select from cursor to start of paragraph
16. Select from cursor to end of paragraph
17. Select from the cursor to the start of the text flow
18. Select from the cursor to the end of the text flow
19. Delete the word to the left of the cursor — until now you were hitting delete for every character, weren’t you?
20. Delete the word to the right of the cursor
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