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I was wondering if somebody knows how to use home/end keys behave in a Windows/ Linux fashion. What I mean is that when I press Apple + Left (Home combo on a mac book pro laptop) it should go to the beginning of the line, and Apple + Right to the end of the line. Right now they change focus to the top of the scroll history. Drives me crazy.

Home / End keys behave as expected in TextMate and such but not in terminal, which makes me think it's that app specific. I found some page saying that I need to remap key bindings but I can't do that on every mac i touch. So is there another shorcut in Mac I can use or how do I make Home/End keys behave as expected?

Thank you

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Linux does that with home/end keys? I only knew about ctrl-a for beginning of line and ctrl-e for end of line. I thought home/end keys were used only by Windows and OS/2 for that. – Andrew J. Brehm Apr 16 '10 at 8:58
Well at least Debian. You spooked me so I just confirmed using Debian Lenny and Putty on Windows. – Nick Gorbikoff Apr 16 '10 at 21:10
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There are three levels of key mappings in this case:

  1. Terminal.app
  2. The shell, which is probably bash
  3. For bash, the editor mode, which is probably emacs

For emacs, Ctrl-A goes to the beginning of the line and Ctrl-E goes to the end of the line. Here are some other key combos, including for the alternative vi mode.

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Thank Ken. Works like a charm – Nick Gorbikoff Apr 19 '10 at 20:21
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