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I recently have bought a mac book pro and I have noticed there is no home button, and I can't find a hotkey anywhere to make the cursor to the beginning of the line. Am I missing something? Is there a program out there that will help me do this?

This in in the terminal btw.

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In a text editor, you can use Cmd + ← and Cmd + → to jump to the beginning and end of a line.

The command line is a little bit different. If you're using Bash (the default shell for OS X), Ctrl + A and Ctrl + E will do what you want.

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I think you mean Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E in the terminal. – Matthew Schinckel Aug 10 '09 at 2:26
Thanks. That's what I get for trying to write an answer on my iPhone. – Sidnicious Aug 10 '09 at 18:19
Most Cocoa applications will also accept the Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E keystrokes. – las3rjock Aug 10 '09 at 18:38
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fn + ← = home

fn + → = end

fn + ↑ = Page Up

fn + ↓ = Page Down

command + ↓ = Top of Document

command + ↓ = Bottom of Document

(Sometime home and top of document get switched around, it depends on program, but generally the above is correct)

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That doesnt seem to work in the terminal. fn + left just takes me to the top of the buffer. – AdamB Aug 8 '09 at 0:03
Thanks for adding that!! I don't think there is any command to scroll up in terminal :S I just tried in Windows Command Prompt and Power Shell and can not get it to work. I'm to lazy to turn on my linux box for this, but I am pretty much sure it is the same and that you can only do scroll stuff (that I posted above) within any sort of document / entry field other than terminals. – William Hilsum Aug 8 '09 at 0:08
@Adam Bronte - Hold the <kbd>Shift</kbd> key as well and it works for most applications. – Chealion Aug 8 '09 at 6:10
The best compromise I've been able to come up with is binding ctrl + command + left/right to move between words – AdamB Aug 9 '09 at 20:37
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The home button for the mac is FN + [

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