Mac OS X - go to beginning of line, or maybe not
:: Monday, October 6th, 2008 @ 4:32:10 pm
:: Tags: Computers
This is driving me crazy. In Windoze-land, hitting Home will take you to the beginning of a line of text, and End will take you to the end of the line. I had grown quite used to this and relied on it a lot. In Mac OS X, the respective keyboard shortcuts are CMD-left arrow and CMD-right arrow.
The problem is that in web browsers on the Mac, CMD-left arrow is Go Back, and CMD-right arrow is Go Forward. The browsers are typically smart enough to detect whether or not your cursor is in a textarea, but that detection isn’t 100% reliable. Sometimes, I hit CMD-left arrow while I am typing inside a textarea, and the browser goes back a page; I usually lose everything I happened to be typing. I’ve probably lost a small book’s worth of text over the last two years.
Anyone have a workaround?
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In firefox and safari you can also use Cmd+[ to go back and Cmd+] to go forward.
Yeah, but I want it NOT to go forward and back when I hit CMD+left arrow and CMD+right arrow. I guess I can disable them in Firefox and get used to using CMD+[ and CMD+]…
Hi there, been following your awesome pics for about a month. cool stuff.
one workaround, from what I recall, is to use the up/down arrows to go to home/end. It also drives me crazy that the Home/End buttons don’t work the way they’re supposed to.
Ctrl-a = beginning of line Ctrl-e = end of line
Hey, that is cool — I always assumed that Ctrl-a/e were only for Terminal and other unixy things, but the Firefox people are thinking! Thanks for the tip!