Eric, no Mac OS or 'normal' application has EVER had the End and Home
keys worked as you expected them to (as I understand your message) as
far as I know without using a modifier key utility or changing the
keyboard layout functions.
If you want to get such a function, you'll need a keyboard mapping
utility to change it.
If you're using Mac OS X, you could try changing it as suggested at:
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Switch%20To%20The%20Mac
or
http://www.aaronadams.net/index.php/2005/03/01/change_the_behavior_of_the_home_and_end_
[quote]
"Finally, if you're a Windows user and the Mac's way of dealing with
Home and End really bugs you, here's a tip from Aaron Adams -
To change the Mac's home and end keys to behave like Windows, create
a text file named /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict (if the
folder doesn't exist, go ahead and create it) and add these lines: /*
Home/End keys like Windows */
{
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /*home*/
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /*end*/
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /*shift + home*/
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /*shift + end*/
}
Logout and login, and the home and end keys will work like Windows."
[end quote]
You're on your own when modifying your system stuff!!! ;)
Patrick Mead-Robins
Mac Solutions
250-652-1860
-----------------------------
At 6:37 PM -0500 1/21/06, Eric Dunbar wrote:
On 1/21/06, Patrick Mead-Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As well as the name of the applications you're concerned or having
'problems' with would certainly help. ;)
Patrick
>> In Safari and TextEdit they seem to be mapped to page-up/page-down
>> Microsoft Word fortunately hums away as expected but THAT'S IT -- all
>> the other apps I've tried don't!!!
:-)
I just realised, I assumed everyone knew what behaviour I was
expecting from home and end.
Whilst editing text (whether in a text edit box or in the URL bar)...
I expect HOME to take the cursor to the beginning of the line if
pressed without modifier keys, and, if shift is held down for it to
select text to the beginning of the line from the current position of
the cursor.
The same for END, except it takes the cursor to the end of the current line.
Or, am I going senile now that I've hit 30?
(am I maybe expecting too much from Apple... MS Word does work as
expected (for the past 21 years MS Word has used its own text editing
services) so I expect that this snafu is OS-based somehow... it seems
to affect apps that use the OS-provided text editing services)
Eric.
At 9:29 AM -0500 1/21/06, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>Well, I could've provided more info...
>
>Mac OS X 10.4.4
>Keyboard= Apple's "white" extended USB keyboard (2004/2005)
>
>Eric.
>
>On 1/21/06, Eric Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My HOME and END keys do not work in apps which (presumably) use OS
>> text editing services. Pressing them without modifier keys does
>> nothing (but, they're supposed to take you to the beginning and end of
>> lines).
>>
>> In Safari and TextEdit they seem to be mapped to page-up/page-down
>>
>> Pressing HOME/END on their own does nothing.
>>
>> This is a MASSIVE irritant.
>>
>> Microsoft Word fortunately hums away as expected but THAT'S IT -- all
>> the other apps I've tried don't!!!
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this or is this something unique to me?
>>
>> I just created a new account to see if preferences could have anything
>> to do with it and nada... same behaviour in jtest :-(.
>>
> > > Eric.
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