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is it possible to make Cmd+Page Up / Page Down shortcut performing switch tab in Terminal?

At the moment I can use Cmd+Shift+[ or Cmd+Shift+] shortcuts to do the thing, but this is horrible for me. I'm using external USB Keyboard and Karabiner, if that may help somehow.

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Update:
The answer now reassigns Scroll to Top/Bottom to ⌥⌘PageUp and ⌥⌘PageDown.
This leaves Show Previous/Next Tab free to take over ⌘PageUp and ⌘PageDown.

Assuming your OS X runs in English, you can use this one-liner:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add 'Scroll to Top' '~@\Uf72c' 'Scroll to Bottom' '~@\Uf72d' 'Show Previous Tab' '@\Uf72c' 'Show Next Tab' '@\Uf72d'

If your OS X runs in a language other than English, modify the command to resemble the exact menu item text for your language.

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  • seen this answer somewhere else with slight variations, but it doesn't appear to work - could you please confirm that this should still work today?
    – Chris
    Apr 16, 2016 at 2:17
  • @Chris Turns out the answer broke due to conflicting shortcuts. I have fixed the answer and can confirm it works for me now.
    – Synoli
    Apr 17, 2016 at 14:17
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You can use System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts to configure custom shortcuts for anything available in the menus of an application.

Just choose the application from the list or Other... to select an application not in the list (or leave it at All Applications for every application), type in the exact menu text and supply a keyboard shortcut.

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  • Even though you are generally right about configuring shortcuts this way - it appears impossible to utilize Page Up or Page Down (or End, Home) this way, which is what the question was about specifically.
    – Chris
    Apr 16, 2016 at 2:07
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    I was aware what the OP wanted. The only thing I was not aware of was that Page Up/Down was not possible as I saw that I used these keys as shortcuts on my computer somewhere. It may have been in a 3rd party application then where I used it.
    – Phoenix
    Apr 16, 2016 at 4:41
  • To be honest - there is no good reason in my opinion why it can't be used there and I would expect to be able to configure it exactly as you suggest, but for some unknown reason Apple doesn't allow us to do that.
    – Chris
    Apr 16, 2016 at 6:59

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