Make Home and End buttons work like Windows

[Tyranicus]

I use the Home and End buttons (at least I did when I was a PC user, to go to the beginning and end of a line. However, they don't seem to do that in OS X. In fact, I have never really been able to tell what it is they do at all in OS X. Does anyone know what they do and/or a way to use them like in Windows?

 

[TheStu]

Command Left and Command Right. I am not at my desktop keyboard right now so I can't tell you if the same works there, but that is how you do on your MacBook Pro.

It is the same as I told you the last time you asked this question

 

[Tyranicus]

Yes, I know command left and command right work, but 10+ years of learning to type on a PC have ingrained Home and End into my memory. Besides, that still doesn't answer the question of what Home and End do in OS X.

 

[TheStu]

I don't know... stuff?

 

[Ichigo]

Beginning and end of a text file, duh.

Cmd-left and right are pretty intuitive. It's one of the easier things to get used to in the transition from Windows to Mac.

 

[KeypoX]

it works in ff though. LOL this was a issue with me too... but i think Apple + Command + Fnx (just hold them all) + Super + Right may do it.

I actually found a website that told you how to fix things like this but it seemed like a lot of work i never got around to.

 

[scootermaster]

Controllermate?

poop?

 

[ViRGE]

http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2006/keyfixer/

 

[Injury]

If I had a home and end button on my MBP, I'd figure it out.

 

[sourceninja]

I've gotten so used to cmd+arrow that I actually was horribly frustrated last night trying to write code on my wife's winxp notebook. I had to help a friend write code for a PIC controller and the ide it uses for debugging only runs on windows. Very annoying.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Injury
If I had a home and end button on my MBP, I'd figure it out.

Are you saying that you do not have the keys? Or that you do not have a MBP?

 

[Rabbits]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Injury
If I had a home and end button on my MBP, I'd figure it out.

Are you saying that you do not have the keys? Or that you do not have a MBP?

I think that he meant that he doesn't have a MBP.

 

[Kmax82]

No.. I'm pretty sure he means he doesn't have the keys. I don't have a "Home" or "End" button my my MBP's keyboard.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
No.. I'm pretty sure he means he doesn't have the keys. I don't have a "Home" or "End" button my my MBP's keyboard.

Your arrow keys don't say home, page, page, end on them? Mine do.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea.. but they aren't really Home and End keys.. that's their function equivalent. I think he was just implying that he didn't have dedicated "home" and "end" buttons. It's actually harder to hit FN+Home, than it is to hit CMD+Arrow. So on the MBP it doesn't save you any time to remap those keys.