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- [Find The Process Using A Specific Port](mac/find-the-process-using-a-specific-port.md)
- [Gesture For Viewing All Windows Of Current App](mac/gesture-for-viewing-all-windows-of-current-app.md)
- [Insert A Non-Breaking Space Character](mac/insert-a-non-breaking-space-character.md)
- [Keyboard Shortcuts For Interesting With Text Areas](mac/keyboard-shortcuts-for-interacting-with-text-areas.md)
- [List All The Say Voices](mac/list-all-the-say-voices.md)
- [Open Finder.app To Specific Directory](mac/open-finder-app-to-specific-directory.md)
- [Quickly Type En Dashes And Em Dashes](mac/quickly-type-en-dashes-and-em-dashes.md)

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# Keyboard Shortcuts For Interacting With Text Areas
When interacting with a document text area on MacOS (such as in the Notes app),
there are a bunch of keyboard shortcuts made available to you via the operating
system.
A couple common ones that I'm used to from Unix environments are:
- `ctrl-a` to move the cursor to the beginning of the line
- `ctrl-e` to move the cursor to the end of the line
- `ctrl-p` to move the cursor up a line (this is a common _previous_ keybinding)
- `ctrl-n` to move the cursor down a line (this is a common _next_ keybinding)
A handy one that I wasn't aware of is `ctrl-l` which will scroll the text area
so that the cursor gets centered in the view area.
A much more niche one I wasn't aware of is `ctrl-t` which swaps the character
before the cursor with the character after the cursor. I can only imagine this
being useful for quickly fixing transposed characters in a misspelled word,
e.g. `baer`.
There are many more *Document Shortcuts* as well as well as keyboard shorcuts
for other apps and situations. The full listing is at [Mac Keyboard
Shortcuts](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102650).