This page catalogues neat OS X tricks we've found:
Text Editing Tricks
In Cocoa apps you can delete whole words at a time (without having to select them before hand) by pressing Shift-Option-Delete (or Shift-Option-Forward Delete).
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RE the Delete whole words trick: I wonder if you can do this in BBEdit 8.6, but I don't have a copy. - RPW