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After installing Lion, ⌘ + ← doesn't go to the line start and ⌘ + → doesn't go to the line end.

Anyone know how to reconfigure this?

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Hmm… this works for me on a MacBook Pro running Lion. Tried it in TextEdit and BBEdit. – Nate Jul 21 '11 at 3:52
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Which programs is this happening in? It still works for me - though I do prefer using Control-A and Control-E respectively instead. – Chealion Jul 21 '11 at 3:52
at the time I wrote this question it was not working anywhere. Now it's working everywhere, and I did nothing specific :S – Victor Rodrigues Jul 21 '11 at 3:56
Same for me: it suddenly did not work some time after the Lion upgrade, and a few days later it worked again, without restart or logging off. – Alexander Klimetschek Aug 18 '11 at 12:31
For me, home and end commands work only if I highlight the text with Shift key down. – jelovirt Sep 6 '11 at 12:26
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Option + Command + right arrow (on the latest Lion update -- it changes)

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It seems to have something to do with the language you selected.

I had mine set to English - Canadian (eh :P)

setting Language & Text > Input Sources

uncheck English - Canadian check US

Once I did that my cmd + arrow key was back to normal.

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Coming from Windows I've had a tough time adjusting to the way home and end behaves. Luckily the guys at MacroMates had a blog post about this.

http://blog.macromates.com/2005/key-bindings-for-switchers/

Create a file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict with the following contents:

{
    /* home */
    "\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
    "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* end */
    "\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";
    "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
}

I restarted and my keys were behaving as expected!

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This problem was driving me crazy.

Ortwin Gentz wrote:

Removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist.lock and logging out and back in did the trick for me.

I didn't have a file with that name, but I had one with this very similar name: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist

I moved that file to the trash, then logged out and back in. Problem gone. Hooray!

Thank you, Mr. Gentz!

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Removing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist.lock and logging out and back in did the trick for me.

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You could try restoring defaults by using the 'Restore Defaults' button in System Preferences shown below:

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Have the same issue. But this tip doesn't help. – Ortwin Gentz Jul 26 '11 at 11:50

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