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Remap Home and End key behaviour on a Mac

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The following terminal script can be used to map Home and End keys on macOS so they work in the same way as they do in Windows and Linux: Home - beginning of the line, End - end of the line, Shift + Home - select text between cursor and beginning of the line, etc.

mkdir -p $HOME/Library/KeyBindings

echo '{

/* Remap Home / End keys to be correct */

"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */

"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* End */

"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Home */

"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + End */

"^\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfDocument:"; /* Ctrl + Home */

"^\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfDocument:"; /* Ctrl + End */

"$^\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfDocumentAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Ctrl + Home */

"$^\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfDocumentAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Ctrl + End */

}' > $HOME/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

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