[muglo] Re: Strange behaviour - home and end key don't work in OS X 10.4.4 in Safari/FireFox/TextEdit/others

On 21-Jan-06, at 9:14 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My HOME and END keys do not work in apps which (presumably) use OS
> text editing services. Pressing them without modifier keys does
> nothing (but, they're supposed to take you to the beginning and end of
> lines).
>
> In Safari and TextEdit they seem to be mapped to page-up/page-down
>
> Pressing HOME/END on their own does nothing.
>
> This is a MASSIVE irritant.
>
> Microsoft Word fortunately hums away as expected but THAT'S IT -- all
> the other apps I've tried don't!!!
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or is this something unique to me?
>
> I just created a new account to see if preferences could have anything
> to do with it and nada... same behaviour in jtest :-(.
>
> Eric.

Works fine for me in 10.3.9, so maybe it's a Tiger thing.
TTFN,
TeeC

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