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Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I'm kind of surprised that your comment actually 'fooled' people. It was very obvious sarcasm.
by colmvp 6y ago
Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers, so I'm kind of surprised that your comment actually 'fooled' people. It was very obvious sarcasm.
- GoodJokes 6y agoHacker News attracts a lot of readers who THINK they are smart or whatever that means.
- fluential 6y agoBoom egos shaken
- wojcikstefan 6y agoPlenty of Mac users out there without a “Home” button.
- jakear 6y agoFn+LeftArrow. RightArrow for End.
- FractalParadigm 6y agoIf I'm not mistaken, Fn + Left Arrow is Home on a Mac. Similar to Fn + up/down is Page Up/Down, and IIRC Fn + Right is End.
- crooked-v 6y agoAnd, of course, you can always mess with key bindings for a user by creating a file at ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict with custom overrides for whatever.
- jasonkester 6y agoIt still amazes me that people tolerate that as a substitute. It's a key combo that requires two hands, for what on a regular keyboard is one finger. Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer?
- salttrail 6y agoright cmd + up arrow and you end up with free cofee-hand
- httpsterio 6y agoit dorsnt work with cmd
- Veen 6y agoIt does for me. I've always used ⌘+up and ⌘+down to go to the top and bottom of the page. After eight years of using Macs, I didn't even know you could use the function key as suggested above.
- sildur 6y agoThey don’t. A Starbucks cup is too heavy to hold it for a long period of time.
- andy_ppp 6y agoI'm tired just thinking about this.
- yolomcsuperswag 6y agoAccelerated scrolling makes the home key superfluous. Just scroll "fast".
- easygenes 6y agoYeah, unless the doc is dozens+ pages long. Say, a book on a single page. Then it’s real nice to have a key sequence to get around. Going to the start or end of a long document is an infrequent enough operation I think a two hand sequence is fine.
- raxxorrax 6y agoI use both home and end constantly while coding. Writing text not so much, but it still does happen. Sure, you could do without, but...
- Angostura 6y agoCMD - up-arrow takes you to top of page.
- tom_ 6y agoOn OS X, this also moves the insertion point, which Home doesn't.
- st1ck 6y agoI have Home & End on my keyboard, but they are not very conveniently located. Mapping <Super>-A and <Super>-E to Home and End is much more ergonomic (or you can use other modifier like <Ctrl> or <Alt>). Not sure though which keys should be mapped to PageUp/PageDown. Those are not terribly useful keys anyway if you use touchpad or Space.
- andreshb 6y agoBeen a Mac user for 17 years, never knew that. Thank you.
- Aeolun 6y agoI cannot imagine how painful those years must have been. The moment I learned my macbook didn’t have a home button I was searching for how to emulate that.
- AnonC 6y agoAlso, use Up Arrow to go to the beginning of the line and Down Arrow to go to the end of the line on single line text boxes (I use it often on browser address bars).
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoAlso, system-wide in basically any text field, cmd+left/right does the same, and alt+left/right moves the cursor to the previous/next word.
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- simonklitj 6y agoAlso, CMD + Arrow Up scrolls to top.
- chefandy 6y agoAnd phone users
- dwighttk 6y agoI have an Apple keyboard with a home key and I never use it.
- reaperducer 6y agoMy work Apple keyboard has a home button. It's right there between Function and Page Up. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ052LL/A/magic-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad-us-english-silver https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ052LL/A/magic-keyboard-... My home Apple keyboard has the Home button between Help and Page Up. Though, I will admit that keyboard is 2003ish. But I keep using it because it still has good action.
- drewzero1 6y agoIs that one of the A1048 [1] "crumb tray" keyboards with the clear rim around the edge? I recently switched to one of those from an original iMac keyboard (finally got fed up with not having a forward delete key) and the key edges and the action both feel crisper. Could just be that I've been using the other one for a decade or so though. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Apple_Keyboard_(109_and_78_keys) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Apple_Keyboard_...
- reaperducer 6y agoAlmost. It's the Apple Pro Keyboard (M7803) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Pro_Keyboard_black.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Pro_Keyboard_black.... I have to get a USB⇄USB-C dongle so I can use it on my Windows machine.
- drewzero1 6y agoOoh, I need to get my hands on one of those. The best of both worlds!
- keosariel 6y agoits not a surprise at all
- ben509 6y agoWhen people don't get humor, they're still picking up on the incongruity in it, and this bothers them.
- intpx 6y agoi have worked with way to many people that don't know what the navigation keys do, don't understand most of the control keys, and the only function key they know is F5. Way too many people who have never used an actual console terminal
- IggleSniggle 6y agoOnly function keys I know off-hand are F2 and F12. Mostly because I prefer modal setups and only ever need those two during boot. Although without checking I have a suspicion that F5 refreshes a browser window. Am I right??
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- apozem 6y ago> Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers Here's where I disagree
- heydabop 6y ago> Hacker News attracts a lot of smart readers Ahh, I see you're also trying your hand at sarcasm!