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How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)?

I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows apps.

I also want general solution I get that Kyle Cronin♦ was do the same in some apps, but what about others? is there any tricky solution?

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You can do page up/down and home/end on a Macbook keyboard by using the fn and the arrow keys:

fn+↑ is PageUp
fn+↓ is PageDown
fn+← is Home
fn+→ is End

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    @kyle fn + -> and fn + <- not work fine for me. in some apps it's work right but in some apps it works strange.
    – Am1rr3zA
    Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 19:10
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    The keystrokes Kyle Cronin provided are correct. Bear in mind that Home and End do not always behave the same way on OS X as they do on other OSes.
    – Warren Pena
    Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 19:49
  • +agreed. There's quite a bit of difference from the windows functionality. Some apps act like windows with these keys, others don't.
    – Robert S Ciaccio
    Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 19:55
  • @calavera How can I define keystroke for home and end to do exactly the same as windows?
    – Am1rr3zA
    Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 20:30
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    @am1rr3za: you can't do it in the OS... it's the way the apps themselves are programmed that defines how they handle those keys. What specific apps are you having trouble with?
    – Robert S Ciaccio
    Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 20:56
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⌘+→ works like a PC's End (moves the cursor to the end of the line). ⌘+← works like a PC's Home (moves to the beginning of the line). ctrl+A and ctrl+E (Emacs-style keybindings) work in most OS X applications as well.

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I found another solution for you while I was playing around with KeyRemap4MacBook. Check out the settings pictured below. See anything you like? :)

keyremap4macbook settings

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  • +1 for your answer but I don'thave time now to test it, later I test and tell it solve my problem or not.
    – Am1rr3zA
    Commented Nov 7, 2010 at 5:37
  • None of those address PageUp/PageDown on a MacBook
    – WestCoastProjects
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 21:50
  • It's now at karabiner-elements.pqrs.org
    – xpt
    Commented Feb 6, 2021 at 23:00
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On my MBP it's: CMD + FN + <- for HOME and CMD + FN + -> for END

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  • These are the shortcuts I was hunting for. I wanted to jump to the beginning or end of a document.
    – checketts
    Commented Jul 12, 2013 at 20:12
  • You also have cmd+up and cmd+down, which do the same thing and require one less finger on the keyboard.
    – Hakanai
    Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 11:27
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For Eclipse it appears that these keys aren't even set to anything by default, at least in my installation. You probably need to set them in the preferences:

eclicpse page up and page down

I don't know exactly where the end and home Windows-like functions are in this screen, I couldn't find anything yet that sounds like what they do. Something like "move cursor to end\beginning of line" was what I was looking for.

If you're talking about Safari's address bar, try ⌘+→ and ⌘+← for end and home. Those work in lots of other apps as well.

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  • +1 for your answer but I want find general solution.
    – Am1rr3zA
    Commented Nov 5, 2010 at 5:46
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In Terminal, you can use ⌥ Opt+← for home and ⌥ Opt+→ for end. Although this is on a Swedish keyboard.

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