Keyboard shortcuts / Alt-→ for moving across words

[Christian]

I am really used from other applications to use alt and arrows to move the cursor across words. I could not find a corresponding action in the Keyboard Shortcut preferences panel. Apart from wishing for this functionality, I also found it would be really useful to have a search control in the Keyboard Shortcut preferences panel to search for actions.

[walt.farrell]

I'm not sure there's a preference for it (or if there is, I couldn't find it), but while in a text frame I can use ctrl+right-arrow to move to the next word, or ctrl+left-arrow to move the the previous word.

[Christian]

Thanks for the suggestion Walt! Even though there are other options to achieve the same effect (command on macOS) I would prefer this to be consistent with all the other applications I am using... 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. All I can really say is that all the applications I can find here on Windows use ctrl+arrow, not alt, so it is consistent for me
As you're on Mac that may explain why you have a different experience.

[Christian]

Just to add, the different meaning of alt-arrow breaks maxOS consistencies which trips me often when using my motor memory:

macOS standard:

• command + leftarrow/backspace: move/delete to beginning of line
• alt + leftarrow/backspace: move/delete to the beginning of the word

Publisher

• command-leftarrow moves the cursor one word to the left
• command-backspace deletes the whole sentence
• alt-backspace deletes the previous word
• (alt-leftarrow does something unrelated)