What is ⌥ Option + ← keyboard shortcut for?

This shortcut is used by 29 programs in our database.

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What this shortcut does in different programs?

DaVinci Resolve 15 (Mac) - One subframe reverse
Apple macOS - Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word
Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac) - Trim Backward
Final Cut Pro X - Move the playhead to the previous field in an interlaced clip
CodeMirror - Move to the left of the group before the cursor. A group is a stretch of word characters, a stretch of punctuation characters, a newline, or a stretch of more than one whitespace character

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General (4)

Google Chrome (macOS) - Move your cursor to the beginning of the previous word in a text field

Apple macOS - Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word

Apple iBooks - Move to the beginning of the current or previous word

Apple iBooks - Add a column to the left of the selected cells

Text editing (2)

Ace Editor (Mac) - Go to word left

Google Docs (macOS) - Rotate counterclockwise by 15°

Imaging (6)

Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac) - Trim Backward

Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac) - Decrease Kerning by One Unit

Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac) - Trim Backward by One Frame

Final Cut Pro X - Move the playhead to the previous field in an interlaced clip

DaVinci Resolve 15 (Mac) - One subframe reverse

Substance Painter (Mac) - Camera rotate

System tools (2)

WireShark 3.4.3 (macOS) - Go to the previous packet in your selection history

zsh (macOS) - Move the cursor one word backward

Developer tools (7)

CodeMirror - Move to the left of the group before the cursor. A group is a stretch of word characters, a stretch of punctuation characters, a newline, or a stretch of more than one whitespace character

Adobe Dreamweaver 20.2 (macOS) - Move word left

Mode SQL Editor (Mac) - Go to word left

Valentina Studio - Move Word Left

AWS Cloud9 IDE (Mac) - Goto Word Left

Coda for iOS - Move to the beginning of the current word

Nuclide (Mac) - Collapse all the directories to the top parent.

Media player (2)

QuickTime Player (macOS) - Go to the beginning of a movie

EyeTV - (tap once) Single Frame Backward

Games - PC (1)

Total War: Attila (Mac) - Both rotate left

Twitterrific 6 - Show thread participants

Productivity (9)

Salesforce - (macOS) Go to word left

Salesforce - (macOS) Go to word left

RX 8 Audio Editor (macOS) - arrow Move playhead to previous marker or selection boundary

iPad Smart Keyboard - Move cursor one word to the left

Apple Pages - Move to the left edge of the current word (works for left-to-right and right-to-left text)

Apple Pages - Add a column to the left of the selected cells

ConnectWise 2018.6 - Navigate back

Nuendo 10 (macOS) - Start left

Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 (macOS) - Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word

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