Monday, July 2, 2018

macos - Shift+End doesn't work on OS X like on a PC; Can this be fixed?


I'm usually on a PC, but recently, I've decided to give OS X a go (at work anyway). I don't have too many complaints. There is one, however, that is driving me up a wall.


Home and End don't seem to work right. What's up with that? I'm very used to Home sending the cursor to the beginning of a line, End sending it to the end of a line, Shift+Home selecting everything to the left of the cursor while sending the cursor to the beginning of the line, and Shift+End selecting everything to the right of the cursor while sending the cursor to the end of the line.


I'm rocking Snow Leopard, and I have KeyRemap4MacBook. I try not to use it too much (after all, part of the reason I'm using OS X is to learn it), but this is one feature that I simply cannot live without. The only two things I have enabled on KeyRemap4MacBook are



  1. Use PC Style Home/End, and

  2. Use PC Style PageUp/PageDown.


Home and End still don't work for most apps, and Shift+Home and Shift+End don't work either.


Is there any way I can get those working?


Answer



If you want to learn the OS X way, move to the beginning of the line with + and move to the end of the line with +. Combine with Shift to select text on the way.


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