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

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

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:05:24 +0000

For the record it’s command-left and command-right. Command-up and Command-down are equivalent to home and end.

Entourage drives me nuts by using the Windows meanings of home and end and making command-left/right move a word at a time. I don’t really care which system is in use as long as everything is consistent…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:47:52 +0000

sure — but making it work right matches my dumb brain. I can only go so far with this and home and end were dumb.

In every IDE I use home and end, so having them do what I expect is so much nicer

By: Andrew Herron

Andrew Herron — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:02:21 +0000

Or you just do what the rest of us do and get used to mac keyboard shortcuts (assuming those work in eclipse)

command+left and command+right are the equivalent of home/end, I believe. Maybe it was option+up and option+down.

It does take a few seconds to reorient myself when I move to a windows computer, but using a mac keyboard without home/end buttons has made it much easier to train myself that they aren’t actually necessary