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Update: Now you can skip all these instructions and just download my KeyFixer application to fix your home and end keys. Read the new article ..
With a Mac keyboard, there are two keyboard shortcuts that provide Home and End key functionality. Be aware app on mac. Fn + left and right arrow keys Press the Function key and the right arrow key to jump to the. On the Mac, the Home key doesn't behave like I expect it to. Advertisement It's true; on the Mac the Home and End keys go to the top and bottom of a document, instead of to the beginning or end of.
As Charles indicated, the keyboard shortcut for going to the end of a document is Command+End if you're using a full keyboard. However, if you're using a laptop or condensed keyboard there typically is no dedicated End key. It's incorporated into the ︎ as a secondary function. Unfortunately, it often is not printed on the key cap.
The default behavior of OS X’s “home” and “end” keys drives me nuts. In every other operating system that I’ve used, these keys move your cursor to the beginning (home) or end (end) of your current line. Thankfully, Dreamweaver on the mac behaves this way, but everything else behaves oddly (usually moving you to the beginning or end of the entire document, and sometimes moving just the focus, while leaving the cursor in place).
Today, I decided to try to change this default behavior, and thanks to this blog post by Jon Evans (no longer working, but used to live at: evansweb.info/articles/2005/03/24/mac-os-x-and-home-end-keys), it was easy. Thanks for the tip Jon!
Update: If the files don’t already exist, you need to create them. Here’s the easy way to do it in Terminal (easier, because Finder doesn’t let you see hidden files easily).
Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type the following commands:
Add A Home Key To Macbook Pro
then
Now, if you don’t see the KeyBindings folder, type
Go into the KeyBindings Directory
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Make or Edit DefaultKeyBinding.dict
This opens the nano text editor. Paste these lines from the tutorial in into the file.
I also did some seaching and found this article on the TextMate blog. The following lines from that article add a “fix” for the page up and page down keys.
End Key On Mac Keyboard
press control-x to exit (make sure you save the file).
End Key On Mac Laptop
Now, you don’t need to restart OS X, just any applications that you want to use the new KeyBindings in. Remember, this still doesn’t work right in Firefox. Also remember that you’re changing system setting (in this case, just for the user you’re logged in as) and you should always be careful when making system changes :)