How can I replicate Windows Home/End keys to use to jump to the end of a line or use Shift to highlight to the end or start of a line
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I used the following a lot. ⌘CMD+ꜛ: Home ⌘CMD+↓: End ⌘CMD+←: Beginning of Line ⌘CMD+→: End of Line These I learned the other day from here - very handy for coding and writing, these are emacs bindings which work on Macs. CTRL+A: beginning of line. CTRL+E: end of line. CTRL+U: delete from cursor to beginning of line. CTRL+K: delete from cursor to end of line. CTRL+W: erase word to the left. CTRL+T: transpose characters around cursor. |
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The shortcuts you're looking for are listed on this very handy article in the Apple KB. Hope it helps. |
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These can actually be mapped globally for most applications by creating entries in But this guy created a handy little packaged script called Keyfixer that sets up the bindings in the way you describe (with some additional Control and Shift modifiers.) I threw it in my Dropbox and run it on any Mac I have to use. Since the preferences are per-user you don't have to worry about screwing up someone else's keys. |
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With MacBook Air (the 2012 model at least) the best solution I found was the free KeyRemap4MacBook utility -- it lets you change the keyboard in many ways, and I settled with "fn + cursor left/right" for Home/End and "fn + up/down" for PgUp/PgDown. (See also a related question with the same answer.) |
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