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How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)?

I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows apps.

I also want general solution I get that Kyle Cronin♦ was do the same in some apps, but what about others? is there any tricky solution?

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You can do page up/down and home/end on a Macbook keyboard by using the fn and the arrow keys:

fn+↑ is PageUp
fn+↓ is PageDown
fn+← is Home
fn+→ is End

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    @kyle fn + -> and fn + <- not work fine for me. in some apps it's work right but in some apps it works strange. – Am1rr3zA Nov 04 '10 at 19:10
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    The keystrokes Kyle Cronin provided are correct. Bear in mind that Home and End do not always behave the same way on OS X as they do on other OSes. – Warren Pena Nov 04 '10 at 19:49
  • +agreed. There's quite a bit of difference from the windows functionality. Some apps act like windows with these keys, others don't. – Robert S Ciaccio Nov 04 '10 at 19:55
  • @calavera How can I define keystroke for home and end to do exactly the same as windows? – Am1rr3zA Nov 04 '10 at 20:30
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    @am1rr3za: you can't do it in the OS... it's the way the apps themselves are programmed that defines how they handle those keys. What specific apps are you having trouble with? – Robert S Ciaccio Nov 04 '10 at 20:56
  • @calavera I have problem With Eclipse and also Browser address bar – Am1rr3zA Nov 04 '10 at 21:00
  • For the browser address bar (and pretty much any text situation), command-left and right replicate Windows' home and end. As a bonus, option-left and right does the same as Windows' control-left and right. – Warren Pena Nov 05 '10 at 17:50
  • This doesn't work on terminal, though – Manu Manjunath Jul 09 '14 at 05:59
  • @Manu Works for me in terminal. The fn+arrow keys work exactly the same as the dedicated home/end/pgup/pgdn keys on my Apple Keyboard. – Kyle Cronin Jul 09 '14 at 16:27
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⌘+→ works like a PC's End (moves the cursor to the end of the line). ⌘+← works like a PC's Home (moves to the beginning of the line). ctrl+A and ctrl+E (Emacs-style keybindings) work in most OS X applications as well.

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I found another solution for you while I was playing around with KeyRemap4MacBook. Check out the settings pictured below. See anything you like? :)

keyremap4macbook settings

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On my MBP it's: CMD + FN + <- for HOME and CMD + FN + -> for END

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  • These are the shortcuts I was hunting for. I wanted to jump to the beginning or end of a document. – checketts Jul 12 '13 at 20:12
  • You also have cmd+up and cmd+down, which do the same thing and require one less finger on the keyboard. – Hakanai Jul 06 '14 at 11:27
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For Eclipse it appears that these keys aren't even set to anything by default, at least in my installation. You probably need to set them in the preferences:

eclicpse page up and page down

I don't know exactly where the end and home Windows-like functions are in this screen, I couldn't find anything yet that sounds like what they do. Something like "move cursor to end\beginning of line" was what I was looking for.

If you're talking about Safari's address bar, try ⌘+→ and ⌘+← for end and home. Those work in lots of other apps as well.

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In Terminal, you can use ⌥ Opt+← for home and ⌥ Opt+→ for end. Although this is on a Swedish keyboard.

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