Mac keyboard mapings

[Aaron Hsu]

On Monday, July 2, 2007, Greg Edwards wrote:

>Nothing as simple as that I'm afraid, the simple one-modifier combos of
>{ shift | fn | ctrl | alt/option | apple/command }  { left/home |
>page/dn | page/up | end/right } just do various forward/backward
>paragraph moves, or extend_paragrpah_selection, and behave pretty
>wildly on code files (Perl in this case).
>
>But I sussed it after exhasuting all 5! x 4! combos or whatver ...
>FN+CTRL+ALT/OPTION+ {HOME | END} is the go. Fits the fingers quite
>nicely in the end. The abbreviated Mac keyboard is a minor pain
>sometimes. Couldn't suss this from the zillion Mac Help keyboard pages
>but it may be in there somewhere.

Hrm, Okay, I think something must be strange about your keyboard. I have
a Macbook Pro here and everything works fine with CTRL + FN + HOME/END.

There is a setting in X11 that enables you to use Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
from the menu or to disable them. I thought this setting might have
something to do with it, but apparently not on my computer. What version
of NEdit are you using? CTRL + OPT + FN + RIGHT/LEFT works for me as
well, but I think that it shouldn't require the OPTION key. What is your
language mode? Could that be affecting the system? I was just testing on
a standard text file. I find this behavior rather strange, and I do not
think that it is intentional.

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