Mac keyboard mapings

[Aaron Hsu]

On Sunday, July 1, 2007, Greg Edwards wrote:

>I'm doing some nedit work on a MacBook and find I am missing some
>basic keyboard commands. I've sussed that fn-leftarrow and
>fn-rightarrow are beginning-of-line and end-of-line, but can't suss
>beginning-of-file or end-of-file. The MacBook has just four cursor
>keys, and the fn, ctrl, option(alt) and apple keys.

Try CTRL + HOME and CTRL + END. :-) These are pretty standard keys on
Windows and UNIX editors, but the Macs usually have CMD +
DOWNARROW/UPARROW mapped to such things (BBEdit for example). So, on a
Macbook, CTRL + FN + LEFTARROW/RIGHTARROW should do what you want.

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