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I cannot find the keys on my mackbook. I need them to go page-up and page-down in irssi (IRC). I have tested the tips here but they do not work. They model some different Up/Down, not the traditional Up/Down as on larger keyboards.

How can I press PageUp and PageDown buttons with Macbook? Irssi is running behind ssh and GNU Screen with UTF8 support.

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fn + shift + Up/Down

IIRC in previous versions of Mac OS X (Lion or perhaps earlier), fn had to come first. But I just tested fn vs. shift first and neither had a different effect.

This may be Terminal.app specific, and may not work in iTerm 2. YMMV

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  • Thank you! Worked like charm with mountain lion, happy easter!
    – hhh
    Commented Mar 29, 2013 at 21:11
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It took me a while to guess that and I didn't find anything on Google, so at least, if somebody needs it, it's fn + Up/Down in iTerm 2.

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  • Brilliant, this saved me! I've used fn-shift-up/down for years and just upgraded to El Capitan and spent several days in confusion...
    – nmjk
    Commented May 8, 2016 at 2:00
  • Ha, glad I could help! It's weird that this still gets upvotes when I'm not even using a Mac anymore, though. Something missing in iTerm's docs?
    – F.X.
    Commented May 8, 2016 at 20:42
  • Same for Terminal.app
    – A T
    Commented Sep 21, 2020 at 6:07
  • hey Huawei Matebook user brought here by search engine, this shall work for you too!
    – Mika Feiler
    Commented Jul 14, 2023 at 17:02
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In Terminal, go to Preferences... > Profiles. Click your 'Default' profile or the one you're currently using. Click the 'Keyboard' tab. Click 'Use Option as meta key'. Now Option-P and Option-N will do page back and page up.

Control-P and Control-N are view page up/down... so it's super nice.

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  • This will disable all the cool characters that you can input via option key. What I'd like to have is option+n/p functioning, I made an issue about that.
    – Martin Braun
    Commented Feb 13, 2023 at 20:21
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I'm using irssi within tmux on Yosemite.

When using laptop keyboard (no number pad) this works: fn + shift + up/down

or (mojave)

fn + up/down

When using a standard keyboard shift + page up/page down

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I'm using irssi on Mavericks. For me it was fn + shift+ Up/Down

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On El Capitan with standard keyboard I got just page up/page down buttons to work fine out of the box.

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