Comments on: How to make the Home & End keys on a Mac keyboard work like Home & End keys

By: Atkinj

Atkinj — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:20:54 +0000

Solution:
http://lifehacker.com/225873/mac-switchers-tip-...

By: Name

Name — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:44:33 +0000

I haven't tried it yet, but this does look promising!

http://lifehacker.com/225873/mac-switchers-tip-...

Good luck!

By: Mirko Kirović

Mirko Kirović — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:18:31 +0000

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

Works like a charm!

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:10:08 +0000

This one seems to work:
http://lifehacker.com/software/keyboard/mac-swi...

Have fun!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:28:04 +0000

IMO there is no global fix. Any application can change the keyboard mapping and obvoiusly many of them are doing this. DoubleCommand works for me in many Cocoa apps like text editor, mail, Safari (when I am editing this comment for example). Anyway – you are right – the consistency of Mac keyboard shortcuts is far behind the Windows. Terrible example is the Address Book item editing. Command + Right moves the cursor to the end of line. Command + Left does nothing, but … after releasing the Command button pressing the Left selects the item and the next Left moves the cursor to the start of line. iCal event editing works as expected. I really do not understand, why the Mac programmers are changing such basic behaviour like 'move cursor to the start/end of the line'.

By: Geek Guides

Geek Guides — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:25:11 +0000

Hm, I must beg to differ… Try opening a text document in NeoOffice — those two keys still don't move the cursor to the start/end of a line. Now this could well be a NeoOffice issue, but the fact remains that DoubleCommand isn't a global fix. ;)

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:58:43 +0000

Yes, DoubleCommand does work! It's the kernel driver so you must reboot to make it active.

By: home/end

home/end — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:49:29 +0000

Just found this link which discusses this very frustration! There's a solution for it here:
http://lifehacker.com/software/keyboard/mac-swi...

By: ofir

ofir — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:22:04 +0000

thank you for your post
and doubleCommand does work BTW

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