Forward Delete and Other Hidden Mac Keyboard Text Delete Options

[@douglasemsantos]

This is so helpful! I'm a new Mac user, coming from Windows, and the lack of Delete on my keyboard really confused me. I kept on moving forward to use the Backspace to delete. Knowing the shortcuts help a lot! Thank you for the video!

[@carolinebarlow4795]

Thanks Gary for yet another immensely useful tutorial! I never fail to learn something new from your amazing videos!

[@javtimestwo]

Option + Delete and Command + Delete: two shortcuts that I can use on a daily basis. Never knew these were in play until watching this video. Keep up the great work and keep these videos coming! 👏🏽

[@MrTsatour]

Unreal again Gary. Thank you. Amazing how you keep coming up with the goods. The person that can't learn something from you doesn't exist...

[@mikozaire58]

Ive been using Mac and Ios for 10 years and this video was very helpful and enlightening. Thank you!

[@ThinkBigToday]

Wow, so many options. Even people at Apple could learn a thing or two from you

[@macforme]

Not only a fab video but the Notes have a quick reference cheatsheet !!! Thank you, Gary!

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

[@victoriamarcial8396]

Thank you so much. My problem was solved by your video tutorial. Keep it up!

[@carlosquiroz8805]

Gary, you are amazing man, as a new Mac user your channel is the best and most educative source of information I have found. Thanks.

[@francescam.e.1884]

Thank you for this very helpful video. As a new Mac user and just learning the shortcuts, this was very clear and informational.

[@Jimgoodwin846]

You are amazing…I Don’t know how you remember all this. Great video.

[@mirkovukovic6517]

Brand new Mac user here and I keep back coming to this channel 🙂 Question: is there a page with a list of all the keyboard shortcuts discussed here?

[@macmost]

I do have a list in the description right here. I have cheat sheet of other shortcuts right on my home page: macmost.com

[@mirkovukovic6517]

@@macmost - I did not expand the description text and thus missed the quick reference - my apology. This is very impressive supporting material (quick reference, time stamps, ...)

[@sivakrishnat5471]

in iterm also these shortcuts work, but you have to enable "Natural Text Editing" in key mapping presets.

[@LuckyOne3749]

My favorite channel for Mac tips & tricks

[@gg31be]

Thanks! Those who write a lot of texts will certainly use several key combinations. But I certainly put a few extra ones on my cheat sheet that I can use.

[@yohanabeysinghe6815]

Apple should pay this guy for keeping this channel running

[@Billy123bobzzz]

Fantastic job! This is useful for folks that are used keyboard from other operating systems, well done!

[@davemac90]

Thank you. I was very helpful.

[@russpolsgrove6691]

Thank you Gary!

[@markbarton6845]

Great video! Thank you for making it.

[@JustSheilz]

Oh this is a timesaver!!! Thanks!

[@Erin-Thor]

Good info! THANK YOU!

[@rohanawolf2089]

So much to know! If there is, chances are you know it. Thanks for sharing this.

[@fbales]

Always useful!

[@nurullakhonnazrullaev8366]

great tutorial

[@PGNogueira]

Cool. Very useful.

[@enigmatist666]

Another great video; thank you. One issue I have is that I frequently use Cmd/+ to increase the content when editing JPEGs. However, I often hit the Delete key by accident (as it's right next to the + key), thus deleting the file! Is there a way of avoiding this, such as changing the key combinations for either increasing or deleting? Thank you!

[@macmost]

In which app?

[@Macvriendin]

You should have way more subscribers. Your content is Walhalla for Mac users. ❤️

[@bobrobosborne6849]

Another way to delete text is to place cursor at the beginning of what you want to delete, then hold the shift key and move the cursor to the end of what you want to delete. This highlights the selected text. Then hit delete key to delete the chosen text.

[@USALiveStream]

I subscribe awesome tutorial thanks

[@tonipepperoni5994]

I have a question. Are all your videos included in your different playlists? Or there are videos that are not in any playlist? I would like to watch most of them, don’t want to miss important ones. Thank you in advance. LOVE YOUR CONTENT.

[@macmost]

I guess some are not. Just go to my website and everything is listed there. macmost.com

[@botch3936]

Another one I'll have to watch again this afternoon, and again in a week, to try to retain some of the info; thanks Gary! One quick question: the text used in this lesson, what language is it? It almost looks like Latin.

[@macmost]

That is Lorem Ipsum text. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

[@botch3936]

@@macmost So, an early version of Pig Latin! Thanks Gary, I learned something else this morning. 😅

[@fowlercarlos]

I was not able to get Command + Delete to work properly on Microsoft Word. It works for Pages and Notes.

[@macmost]

Word likes to do its own thing, probably to be more like Word for Windows.

[@bummer4451]

Is it possible to assign CMD + Delete or Opt + Delete to forward delete? So that to forward delete can be done with one hand instead of pressing Fn + Delete?

[@macmost]

No. But if you must then Use Control+D instead? Or, just Shift+forward arrow to select, then Delete. Or, forward arrow to move forward and then Delete to delete? Lots of options for doing it with one hand.

[@bummer4451]

@@macmost I was using Windows my whole life, switching to Mac can be quite painful. Without the forward delete key is one. I think, Ctrl + D will work for now. Thank you.

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@zigatretjak75]

Wow a plethora of deletions

[@vishnu-krishna108]

Very very helpful Wish I could do multiple likes 👍 to the video🙏🙏

[@4STEVEJOY34]

Will command + z Undo these deletes? If you made a booboo? I had no idea there were this many ways. Great video!

[@macmost]

Yes, in general Command+z will undo almost anything. Try it with a sample document and see.

[@hikarushidou]

the option and command do the same thing for me when i use it with delete

[@macmost]

Command should delete back to the start of the line, and Option should delete just the previous word. Which app are you typing in?

[@hikarushidou]

@@macmosti tried it on Word, thats what i mainly use and need that function👍

[@macmost]

@@hikarushidou Microsoft uses its own custom text engine and follows its own rules.

[@hikarushidou]

@@macmost :(

[@peteruzek]

Gary looking forward to the episode about new dictation features in Ventura. I installed the beta but dictation is not working at all for me in beta :( but looking forward to “mixed” dictation mode.

[@macmost]

Only some minor new features (Automatic punctuation and Emoji support).

[@peteruzek]

@@macmost in the presentation they mentioned it will be possible to dictate and switch to typing without leaving dictation mode, so you should be able to dictate, then type/edit and continue dictating ( I guess it's something like dictation made by Microsoft in MS Office)

[@macmost]

@@peteruzek You can already do that. Have been able to do that for a while. Use the "Voice Control" type of dictation, which is the more advanced one anyway. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpLPe3dsi8SAlZY

[@mup_pet]

Just got my Mac, and I was ready to throw it out of the window. Before everything else, I had to find out about mouse and keyboard, or it'd be a deal-breaker. Thanks to this channel, I'm now moving away from the window and won't administer defenestration...yet. :p I really do miss scrolling one page at a time with a mouse wheel though, just so natural and easy on the body. :(

[@macmost]

If you are using an Apple mouse, you can scroll with two fingers on the surface.

[@mup_pet]

@@macmost Thanks for the reply Gary. I've got a magic mouse, but doing what you suggest doesn't work. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll find the answer in one of your vids somewhere! Cheers. 😄👍

[@macmost]

​@@mup_pet Scrolling with two fingers doesn't work? Should work with two fingers, or even one. Don't "click down" just move your finger(s) over the top.

[@mup_pet]

@@macmost Ah, maybe there's a misunderstanding. I can scroll like that, but what I miss is the wheel. I used to set it up so one click of the wheel scrolled one page. It was so effortless. With this magic mouse is does scroll, but not one page at a time. Not sure if I'm asking the impossible, and should just live with it, or there's problems my end.

[@macmost]

@@mup_pet I mean you can still get a third-party mouse with a wheel and use their software or other apps to customize it to do that if you really want. You can also use keys on your keyboard to Page Up and Page Down.

[@540Baseball]

Good to know…

[@MarilynKay]

How can I stop the Mac Keyboard from deleting whole sentences? I accidentally touch some key and the whole sentence disappears never to return. What can I turn off?

[@macmost]

Hard to say without knowing what you press. Command+Delete will do something like that, but that's hard to do accidentally. And remember if you do make a mistake like that, there is always Command+z to undo. So there is no "never to return."

[@AdrianIII]

Appreciate your channel! Much useful information. Don't like "shorts" because one can't comment on them. Question: Isn't one of the features of iOS 16 a greater ability for Apple to spy on the user. Or is that just internet disinfo? Keep up the good work!

[@macmost]

You can. I have several comment for the one from yesterday. Maybe you need to look at it in a web browser, not the app? I don't know what you mean by this. Where did you read that? Tons of privacy features already in iOS 15 and more in iOS 16.

[@AdrianIII]

@@macmost The Center for Democracy and Technology’s director, Greg Nojeim said: “Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, which will be vulnerable to abuse and scope-creep not only in the U.S., but around the world.”

[@macmost]

@@AdrianIII You are talking about the whole CSAM things from back in 2021. That was an idea by Apple to use hashes to detect CSAM in iCloud photos. Google and others already do this in a much more intrusive way. Apple came up with a way to protect privacy while doing this using hashes. Tons written about this so I won't rehash this 2021 topic here. 9to5mac.com/guides/csam/ But currently Apple isn't moving forward with this and it isn't part of iOS 16.

[@AdrianIII]

@@macmost THANKS for the excellent info!

[@s7a2g65]

I always remap my keyboard for shift + Delete for the forward delete. It does require an app…

[@macmost]

Interesting. But on most Mac keyboards FN and Shift are right next to each other.

[@davidnoble1485]

I have been unsuccessful in finding a single key option to delete a file that is being viewed by using the space bar. I can do it with Command - Delete but this is very cumbersome after an hour or so. (I am removing certain jpg files from a video dump of the frames because mostly every 3rd and 5th files have been duplicated by a telecine process. My hands get very tired after 6000 pictures!)

[@macmost]

First, I would turn on View. Show Preview so you can see the preview on the right side of the window instead of using Quick Look. Now in List or Column view you can just use the arrow keys to move through the images. Command+Delete is the way to delete them, it is just two keys. Anything else you would do would take more work than that (like dragging to the trash or moving to a folder).

[@davidnoble1485]

@@macmost Thanks for confirming my findings. I am doing exactly as you suggest but have to hit the space bar for the enlarged view. It is hard to catch th duplicates as there are 25 pictures for each second of video. It is just so uncomfortable to hold that position for hours at a time.

[@macmost]

@@davidnoble1485 A few things that may help. First, if you use View, Show Preview you can drag the line between the preview area and the main Finder window area to increase the size of the preview, so you don't need to use Quick Look, maybe. If you do use Quick Look note you don't have to use spacebar more than once. Just open Quick Look and don't close it. As you use arrows and Command+Delete the Quick Look window will remain. You could also do this all with your trackpad or mouse, clicking on files to select and see them in Quick Look or Finder preview, and then dragging them to the trash.

[@ashishsaxena7671]

Gary where are the sponsers on your channel 😀? You must have approached by a lot of them.

[@macmost]

I don't accept sponsorships. That's a messy business with lots of direct conflicts, especially in my space (apps I don't trust and can't recommend). I am directly supported by people like you through my Patreon. macmost.com/patreon and so thankful for that!

[@lylewaters6161]

So I think the biggest confusion is why they label that key delete, but have different behavior. The key should just be called backspace like it is on every other keyboard made for Windows machines.

[@macmost]

I can't speak for Apple, but it would be weird to use a "Backspace" key to do things like delete sections of an image, files, objects, items from a list, etc.

[@lylewaters6161]

@@macmost yeah so that’s why you also have a delete key in the navigation section of the keyboard. The delete key is for deleting things (that are selected) and the backspace key is for backspacing over (and therefore erasing/deleting anything in the path). I’m a Mac user for the past 10 or so years and I’ve never understood this whole need for calling something forward delete and delete. The vast majority of computer users in the world are still Windows (or non Mac users) and they don’t seem to have this whole backspace/delete key issue.

[@RickJones222]

So, the....what?

[@macmost]

Did you have a question?