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End? What does that mean? Does it quit the current app? Does it shutdown? I’m really confused! And this strange Home key, what’s that for? Going to my start pag

by ugh 15y ago

End? What does that mean? Does it quit the current app? Does it shutdown? I’m really confused! And this strange Home key, what’s that for? Going to my start page? Showing the desktop? Start menu? What’s going on?!

darrenkopp 15y ago
It's pretty easy to push a key and find out what it does compared to imagining a key combination and trying to figure if that key combination even does anything
- anjc 15y ago
  Not only that but, as a new mac user, it seems like there are several common keystroke types. Fn+x, ctrl+x, alt+x, cmd+x, cmd+shift+x; maybe there's some logic behind it but i can't find any. It seems like the windows system is a bit more understandable. (if there's something obvious that i'm missing someone please tell me!)
  - egypturnash 15y ago
    Cmd: this is an important command we expect you to use a lot. Shift-cmd: wow this program has a lot of commands that people want shortcuts for. Shift-ctrl/alt: holy shit this program has a lot of commands. Shift-ctrl-alt: this program is probably old enough to vote, and has a huge ton of commands Alt: rarely used alone outside of terminal Ctrl: see alt Fn: NOT ON ALL KEYBOARDS. Used to force f-keys to output f-key codes instead of doing media control stuff, or to change cursors into page-up/dn/start/end.
- ugh 15y ago
  That’s typical Windows chauvinism.
anjc 15y ago
I think learning that 'end' means 'end of document' is a lot more intuitive than fn+right.
- sjs 15y ago
  The canonical shortcuts are Cmd-left/right/up/down, which move the cursor to the absolute left, right, top, and bottom of the document, respectively. This makes perfect sense. Home and End behave differently, they move the viewport to the beginning or end of the document but do not move the cursor. They are like scrolling in that you don't lose your position. I'm not sure, but I think that page up and down (Fn-up and Fn-down) behave similarly. I never use these though.
drumdance 15y ago
They way I learned it is, I pushed it to see what happened. Voila, it means end of line.

by ugh 15y ago

darrenkopp 15y ago

It's pretty easy to push a key and find out what it does compared to imagining a key combination and trying to figure if that key combination even does anything

anjc 15y ago
Not only that but, as a new mac user, it seems like there are several common keystroke types. Fn+x, ctrl+x, alt+x, cmd+x, cmd+shift+x; maybe there's some logic behind it but i can't find any. It seems like the windows system is a bit more understandable. (if there's something obvious that i'm missing someone please tell me!)
- egypturnash 15y ago
  Cmd: this is an important command we expect you to use a lot. Shift-cmd: wow this program has a lot of commands that people want shortcuts for. Shift-ctrl/alt: holy shit this program has a lot of commands. Shift-ctrl-alt: this program is probably old enough to vote, and has a huge ton of commands Alt: rarely used alone outside of terminal Ctrl: see alt Fn: NOT ON ALL KEYBOARDS. Used to force f-keys to output f-key codes instead of doing media control stuff, or to change cursors into page-up/dn/start/end.
ugh 15y ago
That’s typical Windows chauvinism.

anjc 15y ago

I think learning that 'end' means 'end of document' is a lot more intuitive than fn+right.

sjs 15y ago
The canonical shortcuts are Cmd-left/right/up/down, which move the cursor to the absolute left, right, top, and bottom of the document, respectively. This makes perfect sense. Home and End behave differently, they move the viewport to the beginning or end of the document but do not move the cursor. They are like scrolling in that you don't lose your position. I'm not sure, but I think that page up and down (Fn-up and Fn-down) behave similarly. I never use these though.

drumdance 15y ago

They way I learned it is, I pushed it to see what happened. Voila, it means end of line.