I should have stumbled on this one years ago but I have just realised typing in Safari’s address bar and unconsciously doing Ctrl+a to go to the start of my query, that it works.

We recall these life saving Unix text editing shortcuts:
‘Ctrl+a’ : go to start of the line
‘Ctrl+e’ : go to the eol
‘Ctrl+k’ : delete all chars to the right of the cursor

I have tested those with success in various standard Dialog Boxes, TextEdit windows andin Safari’s address bar; it seems to be a relatively system wide standard. Of course no luck with MS apps, they use their non-standard Alt+arrows (when most other Mac apps use the widely known Ctrl+arrows).

First my sincerest apologies to all those who knew and if there ever was a similar hint since 2003 in the DB. [crarko adds: At the time this hint was originally submitted the site’s search function was not working.]

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Source: Mac OSX Hints