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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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Reset to default
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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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  • Extensive. This is handy.
    – Paul Eccles
    Aug 4, 2011 at 20:26
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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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  • Concise, clearly-written answer, with research on related answers, well done. Upvoted.
    – gosmond
    Feb 22, 2013 at 20:58
  • Thanks @gosmond, it it quite fun to learn the Mac after 20 years on PC keyboard :)
    – Premek Brada
    Feb 22, 2013 at 21:01
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These can actually be mapped globally for most applications by creating entries in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

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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