I am attempting to make the text editing experience in a Windows workstation I use alongside my OS X systems line up with the keybindings that Cocoa offers.

To start, how would one change mappings so that alt-backspace (in this case it's the option-back-delete key on an older MacBook Pro) deletes entire words?

I would also like to map many other keys differently, such as control-a/e to go to beginning/end of line and a number of other alterations to match it up, but I'd like to start off at the very least with the above.

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Did you know that you can delete words by the combination Ctrl+Backspace?

Alt+Backspace is generally mapped to the "Undo" command.

If you still want to change the behavior, you can use the AutoHotKey program.

To faster delete whole words, you can first select them by placing the cursor at the end and pressing Control + Shift + Left Arrow. Then proceed by pressing Backspace or Delete.

To map the Alt + Backspace behavior to do this, check the links given as "possible duplicates" to your question.

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