[hesk]

> They can't navigate a paragraph or a line using home/end buttons.

One of my biggest irritations in Word is that Ctrl-A/E don't go to the beginning/end of line. These key combinations (originally from Emacs) work on almost all input boxes on macOS. (IntelliJ is also an offender in this regard. Basically, any program that implements their own text boxes.)

[dhosek]

If you set the keymap in IntelliJ to MacOS you get many of the Emacs keybindings including ctrl-a/e.

I also make these shortcuts for beginning/end of line in Word (although the ability to add custom keyboard shortcuts seems to randomly disappear in my copy of Word).

[hesk]

Yes, IntelliJ is easy to fix, just the default is broken.

Word, not so much.

[peatmoss]

Emacs, the lightweight markup format of your choice (org-mode for me), and Pandoc do a pretty good job of creating vanilla Word documents that don't have "weird" formatting embedded.

Sadly, it's a one-way trip, and collaborators usually can't be talked into adopting this arcane way of working.

But the emacs keybindings work flawlessly :-)

[NeutralForest]

I constantly run into this issue when I'm not using Emacs (or Emacs compliant keybindings), it's excessively annoying.