Make Home & End keys behave like Windows on Mac OS X » DamienG

Posted: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 by Tyler Durden in
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I’ve been using Mac OS X daily since 2001 when I purchased my Titanium PowerBook and I still can’t get used the home and end key behavior.
If, like me, you want Home to send you to the start of the line and not to the top of the document then create a file called DefaultKeyBinding.dict in your ~/Library/KeyBindings folder (might need to create that folder too) with the following contents:
{
    "\UF729"  = moveToBeginningOfParagraph:; // home
    "\UF72B"  = moveToEndOfParagraph:; // end
    "$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfParagraphAndModifySelection:; // shift-home
    "$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfParagraphAndModifySelection:; // shift-end
    "^\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfDocument:; // ctrl-home
    "^\UF72B" = moveToEndOfDocument:; // ctrl-end
    "^$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfDocumentAndModifySelection:; // ctrl-shift-home
    "^$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfDocumentAndModifySelection:; // ctrl-shift-end
}
This remapping does the following in most Mac apps including Chrome (some apps do their own key handling):
  • Home and End will go to start and end of line
  • ShiftHome and ShiftEnd will select to start and end of line
  • CtrlHome and CtrlEnd will go to start and end of document
  • ShiftCtrlHome and ShiftCtrlEnd will select to start and end of document
Note that you will need to reboot after creating this file for it to take effect.
If you have a PC keyboard with LED backlighting and would like the scroll-lock, num-lock or caps-lock LEDs on when using your Mac check out my free SetLEDS for Mac
[)amien


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  2. Amazing! Works like a charm on latest el capitan version. Thanks!
    Alkirah – September 2nd, 2016
  3. For words selection like in Windows can be used next rules:
    “^\UF702” = (moveWordLeft:); // ctrl-left
    “^$\UF702” = (moveWordLeftAndModifySelection:); // ctrl-shift-left
    “^\UF703” = (moveWordRight:); // ctrl-right
    “^$\UF703” = (moveWordRightAndModifySelection:); // ctrl-shift-right
    Alex – September 30th, 2016
  4. This worked on the latest macOS as well. Thank you.
    Ryan – January 26th, 2017
  5. also works on Version Mac OS X 10.12.4 (16E195). Awesome thanks, I love it :-) Is there some more stuff how to use that? Would love if I can change all my favourite shortcuts in one place
    Martin – May 12th, 2017

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