[paddy_m]

I also stumbled upon this yesterday, for making the rest of OS X more like emacs (or VI). OS X already has emacs keybindings for all text areas, but it is missing some functionality (backward|forward-word). OS X has a concept called input managers, which allow you to plumb in your own custom behaviour.

http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2005/12/27/gus-mueller-fl...

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/04/vi-input-manager/

[cpr]

Actually, Cocoa's built-in text facility has forward-/backward-word, etc. All covered in

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System....