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Not sure how different this is from Windows. Use home/end for start of line or ctrl+page up/page down to go to start of document. Ctrl+left/right moves by words
by tgb 6y ago
Not sure how different this is from Windows. Use home/end for start of line or ctrl+page up/page down to go to start of document. Ctrl+left/right moves by words. Holding shift selects while doing any of these. Ctrl+backspace/delete to delete by word instead of character. Ctrl+a to select everything. Ctrl+1,2,3 select tabs, Windows+1,2,3 selects apps. The main advantage I see on Mac is the separate ctrl/cmd keys that let you use ctrl+c/v for unix terminals. Other than that, I think it's whatever you're used to.
Of course some laptops don't have end/home/page up/page down keys and you have to avoid those.
- freetonik 6y ago> Not sure how different this is from Windows. You have answered your own question. It's home/end, Ctrl and Windows keys where in macOS it's always CMD+something.
- tgb 6y agoWindows key doesn't do any of the cursor move commands and 'ctrl' consistently does the "move in a bigger block than without ctrl" thing. Shift consistently adds selection to that. There's different choices than on macs but it seems equally consistent, when starting with a keyboard with the additional movement keys (home/end/pagedown/pageup).
- donkeyd 6y agoIt's not just that some laptops don't have them, it's also that they're always in a different place. Every time I use windows, I need to look at the keyboard to find home, end, etc. On any Mac I use I don't have to search.
- tgb 6y agoIt's true, non-Mac laptop keyboards are almost invariably awful layouts, often entirely lacking some useful keys.