Hump Day Q 'n A
Wed, Jan 28, 2009 - 10:08 AM EST
It's Wednesday, so it's time for Hump Day Q 'n A. A chance for me to try and help out on any tech question you might have or just offer up my advice.

Feel free to ask questions at Feedback@PaulMaleck.com or in the comments below.

Question #1: Mac keyboard remap?
I want to make CTRL + Arrow move the cursor one word at a time.
(I know that Option + Arrow already does that, but I am having an impossible time training my fingers to hit that next key over)
Also, of course, CTRL + SHIFT + Arrow should highlight one word at a time.
It also wouldn't be terrible if CTRL + C = Cut and CTRL + V = Paste.
Again, I know COMMAND + C and COMMAND + V do that... It's a pinky dexterity issue!!!

Answer
In System Preferences go to Keyboard and Mouse. Select the Keyboard tab and click on the Modifier Keys... button. From here you can swap the Command and Control keys that seem to be giving you such a problem. Now keep in mind this may cause havoc when application are trying to give you instructions on what to do, and you have the keys reversed. My advice would just take some more time and try to learn the proper Mac key combo's. As someone who switched to Mac after years of windows it took me a while to teach my fingers a new way of operating, but now I wish I could re-map Windows keyboards whenever I have to use that!... Thanks for the question. - Paul

Update: For more flexablily and to help remap the option key.. look at DoubleCommand
Flem - Wed, Jan 28, 2009 - 10:44 AM EST
Hmmm...  Well this can only fix ONE of these problems at a time.  If I map Control key to Option, this solves the first problem and I can CTRL + Arrow to move a word at a time.

If I map Control key to Command then I can CTRL + C and CTRL + V.  I don't know how to do BOTH...
Paul Maleck - Wed, Jan 28, 2009 - 11:00 AM EST
I've updated the answer with a free app that may give you more flexibility. 
Flem - Wed, Jan 28, 2009 - 11:14 AM EST
Oooo!!!  I also love the "PC Style Home and End Keys" option available in DoubleCommand.
Flem - Wed, Jan 28, 2009 - 11:21 AM EST
Well, DoubleCommand does have a LOT of features, but I can't find a combination of check boxes that will cause the CTRL + Arrow to move the cursor one word at a time AND make CTRL + C = Copy.
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