MacOS Global Emacs Keybindings

To enable Emacs like keybindings globally on the operating system, edit ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict to inlcude something like this: /* ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict */ { /* Additional Emacs bindings */ "~f" = "moveWordForward:"; "~b" = "moveWordBackward:"; "~<" = "moveToBeginningOfDocument:"; "~>" = "moveToEndOfDocument:"; "~v" = "pageUp:"; "~d" = "deleteWordForward:"; "~^h" = "deleteWordBackward:"; "~\010" = "deleteWordBackward:"; /* Option-backspace */ "~\177" = "deleteWordBackward:"; /* Option-delete */ /* Escape should really be complete: */ "\033" = "complete:"; /* Escape */ } Then reboot the system. Read more