tutorial: how2 enable Home (Pos1) & End keys in most apps

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You miss your windows like behavior when hitting the pos1, end or pageUp and PageDown key?

It's easy to implement thoset yourself.

 

Create a file called DefaultKeyBinding.dict in /Users/{yourUserNameHere}/Library/KeyBindings (create folder when not there yet). In that file, copy the following text:

 

{

"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";

"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

 

"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:";

"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";

 

"\UF72C" = "pageUp:";

"\UF72D" = "pageDown:";

}

 

Logoff and Logon into Mac OS X. Feel the difference and be productive again.

Special thanks to this german blog entry who pointed that out:

 

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tested: works, however app-dependent. In apps which do not care about this (e.g. Firefox) use the left and right cursor keys + apple or control or command or windows key pressed down at the sime time (do some testing, also depending on what keyboard you use and how you mapped it).

 

The folder KeyBindings with the DefaultKeyBinding.dict really needs to be in the user's Library folder, Mac OS X does NOT load it if put into /Library @ root level. The folder incl. the DefaultKeyBinding.dict in correct Unix text format is attached @ the end of this posting.

 

If you want to customize your keyboard layout use Ukelele ("Mac OS X Keyboard Layout Editor")

key_bindings_for_pos1__end_and_more.zip