@Lri's answer is awesome (*thank you so much; this was driving me insane*), but I ended up modifying it a little. (In this answer, I use the non-appley names for the keys, so command = super and option = alt.) Super-left and super-right used to actually be mapped to `moveToLeftEndOfLine` and `moveToRightEndOfLine`. Using `moveToBeginningOfLine` and `moveToEndOfLine`, like @Lri does, may cause inconsistent behaviour. There are a whole bunch of other differences between the appley shortcuts and literally everybody else's shortcuts that I added. For example, ctrl-left and ctrl-right are supposed to move between words; not alt-left and alt-right. I don't think this is exhaustive, but it's working pretty well for me right now. I assumed the user has already swapped the control and super keys to fix cutting, copying, and pasting. ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict: { "\UF729" = moveToLeftEndOfLine:; // home "\UF72B" = moveToRightEndOfLine:; // end "$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:; // shift-home "$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:; // shift-end "@\UF700" = moveUp:; //super-up "@\UF701" = moveDown:; //super-down "@\UF702" = moveWordLeft:; //super-left "@\UF703" = moveWordRight:; //super-right "@$\UF700" = moveUpAndModifySelection:; // super-shift-up "@$\UF701" = moveDownAndModifySelection:; // super-shift-down "@$\UF702" = moveWordLeftAndModifySelection:; // super-shift-left "@$\UF703" = moveWordRightAndModifySelection:; // super-shift-right "@\UF728" = deleteWordForward:; // super-delete "@\U7F" = deleteWordBackward:; // super-backspace }