On 1/21/06, Patrick Mead-Robins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Hmm. Now I've got to go back and look because it's such a natural
keystroke (the home and end keys are so easy to reach and require so
little finger contortion) that I find it hard to believe that I didn't
learn it on Mac (I've used Mac for 90%+ of computing life and
exclusively for the first 5 years of computer use so all my habits are
Mac-oriented).
> 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]
This seems to work, sort of. Text edit boxes in Safari work, but the
URL bar completely ignores home-end. Now to figure out how to map
command-left and command-right to those keys.
Time to agitate for some sense at Apple. It seems silly to have two
non-functional keys on the keyboard in a location where they can
reduce carpal tunnel (vs. the contortions of command-left/right (which
is good to know... maybe it's possible to map
command-left/command-right to home/end using the trick))... of course,
Apple has had the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ $!# [EMAIL PROTECTED] @@#$ %!#$ help key
since the
beginning of time well, at least since the Apple Extended Keyboard
[I])... that was the single-most useless key on the keyboard (perhaps
in the whole of computing?... at least the (mostly useless) "insert"
that it replaced could be used to paste in certain contexts (even if
over-write mode was _nearly_ as useless as help))
At least now help has been disabled in OS X (I seem to recall that
earlier versions of OS X had it active). Probably enough people have
as profound a hatred for that poor key as I do (the number of times I
wanted to throw my various Macs out of the window when the !$#!%! help
showed...).
Eric.
--
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml>
--> AOL users, remove "mailto:";
Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]>
To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
