[muglo] Survey - what do home/end do on your particular Mac

Hi all, now I'm curious to know what home and end do on your
particular version of Mac OS (X).

On Mac OS X 10.4.4 home and end are basically non-functional in text
editing situations.

I expect them to take the cursor to the beginning or end of the _current_ l=
ine.

What do these keys do in OS 9, 10.3, 10.2, etc?

PS if you want to, you can apparently map the home/end keys in OS X
quite easily...

If you're using Mac OS X, you could try changing it as suggested at:

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Switch%20To%20The%20Mac
or
http://www.aaronadams.net/index.php/2005/03/01/change_the_behavior_of_the_h=
ome_and_end_

To change the Mac's home and end keys to behave like Windows, create
a text file named /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict (if the
folder doesn't exist, go ahead and create it) and add these lines:

/*Home/End keys like Windows */
{
"\UF729" =3D "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /*home*/
"\UF72B" =3D "moveToEndOfLine:"; /*end*/
"$\UF729" =3D "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /*shift + home*/
"$\UF72B" =3D "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /*shift + end*/
}

Logout and login, and the home and end keys will work like Windows.

PS You can create the file in ~/Library/KeyBindings and it'll work too
(that way changes you make to the file will only be felt in the user
account, rather than the whole OS).

Eric.
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