OS X is a bit retarded, but what the rest of the world thinks Home / End should do, Mac users can achieve by press­ing Shift + Home / Shift + End or Con­trol + A / Con­trol + E respec­tively. I’m talk­ing about how to move your cur­sor to the begin­ning or end of a line, of course!

If you’re on one of those spe­cial midget key­boards (a lap­top?) that lacks use­ful but­tons like Home and End, you’re prob­a­bly look­ing for Shift + Fn + Left / Shift + Fn + Right.

There are a bunch of ways you can remap the key bind­ings, but in the inter­ests of stay­ing sane when work­ing on oth­ers’ machines, it’s prob­a­bly worth chang­ing your mus­cle mem­ory instead of your bind­ings here. It’s also worth not­ing that Vim users can use ^ / $ for begin­ning / end of line respectively.

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