Comments on: Making the Home and End Keys work in Eclipse 3.4 on Apple Mac OSX

By: Hasan

Hasan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:36:59 +0000

Thanks mate,

That works like a pro. Absence of Home and End key in mac keyboard makes me crazy..

Finally sort out with your help

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:47:51 +0000

Thank you, you saved my life

By: James Shaw

James Shaw — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:30:41 +0000

I think there’s a bug in Eclipse.

The fix would work sometime, and later when I re-open Eclipse, it would stop working and revert to the old bindings, even though in the key bindings settings it shows the new bindings. After updated the key bindings again (to the same setting), Eclipse then seems to be able to read the new bindings and work accordingly.

This really sucks! Almost makes me want to just work in ubuntu rather than mac os.

By: James Shaw

James Shaw — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:33:59 +0000

Thanks for the post. This was driving me crazy too. You have to make sure in stept 6 you have the “When” field set to “Editing Text”; it defaults to “in Windows”.

The default binding is just stupid: 3 keys when selecting to the start of the line instead of 2.

By: mac

mac — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:11:42 +0000

Thanks for the post. Much obliged.

By: Anton

Anton — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:14:03 +0000

Thank you ! This was driving me nuts !!!

By: peter

peter — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:52:59 +0000

thank you. i LOVE eclipse!

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:07:33 +0000

Spot on.

I use an IBM Model M keyboard with my Mac and I can’t unlearn 25 years of the “proper” use of home and end. Well, I can, but when the world doesn’t fit I choose to make alterations to the world…

By: Tim Cull

Tim Cull — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:43:36 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you! This was driving me crazy

By: web design ireland

web design ireland — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:01:15 +0000

i use the home and end keys all the time when writing code, i can imagine how frustrating this can be…even on my vaio i need to use the fn key to get home,end which is a pain at times