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Question about Home and End buttons
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Join Date: May 2003
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How come many programs (for example, Camino and MacJournal) in OS X don't recognize the Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down buttons on my keyboard (Macally Icekey)? I think only MS Office actually recognizes these buttons. I endup having to use Command-Arrows to get the similar function. Why is that? Is there any way to fix this?
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In most Mac applications, the home key will take you to the top of the document and end will take you to the very end of the document. This constrasts to the Windows convention of the home key taking you to the beginning of a line and the end key taking you to the end of a line. Office For Mac supports the Windows convention, although I believe you can turn it on and off.
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my impression is that since the mac didn't originally have these keys (they were added to make keyboards cross-platform), the only programs that respond to them in the windows way are those that are specifically coded to do so. If they just use the default keyboard-handling provided by the OS, home and end go to that part of the document, as Agent69 said, and PgUp/Dn scroll but don't move the cursor. It's just one of those differences you have to get used to.
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It should be noted that most cocoa apps support the Emacs shortcut:
CTRL-A for the beginning of a line
CTRL-E for the end of a line
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Most Mac apps seem to support them just fine. As mentioned, Office uses them a little differently than most Mac apps, but the support is fairly broad. If it doesn't work, it's the app's fault.
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Originally posted by Agent69:
It should be noted that most cocoa apps support the Emacs shortcut:
CTRL-A for the beginning of a line
CTRL-E for the end of a line
And some more because they're so handy.
ctrl-d is forward delete
ctrl-k is forward delete up to the end off the line
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