This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Mike. Sadly, macOS omits Control-U, which in Terminal shells deletes everything from the insertion point to the start of the line, a useful complement to Control-K. Other software is more literal, and deletes only the characters on the same visible line. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save them. ControlCommandMedia Eject : Quit all apps, then restart your Mac. Some software interprets that as the end of the paragraph (until the next point in the document or email at which you pressed the Return key). ControlCommandPower button: Force your Mac to restart, without prompting to save any open and unsaved documents. Take the time to memorize all these simple delete functions and your workflow is sure to improve. These two functions will work in just about every Mac OS X app, whether it’s a word processor, text editor, browser, terminal, or whatever else you’re using. The arrow keys in the Kindle app had been reported by others in the Appleseed discussion forums and I assume had been reported back to Apple, so that one they should have been aware of. Press and hold the Command while hitting the Delete key. A few other nifty deletion helpers (some of these keyboard commands may not work in the software you are using):Īdd the Option key to forward or backward delete (including Fn-Option-⌫), and macOS deletes a word at a time, or when you’re not dealing precisely with words, anything up to the next white space in the direction you’re deleting.Ĭontrol-H and Control-D also substitute for backward and forwards delete, owing a debt to macOS’s Unix underpinnings.Ĭontrol-K, another Unix relative, deletes everything from the insertion point ot the end of the line. But now the delete button doesn’t work in Mail, the arrow keys don’t work in Kindle, who knows what other keys don’t work in other apps.

Delete button not working on mac