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Home/End keys work in DOS/Windows to go to beginning/end of line. Hold down CTRL key as well and you should go to beginning/end of document. Hold down SHIFT ke

by canucker2016 3y ago

Home/End keys work in DOS/Windows to go to beginning/end of line. Hold down CTRL key as well and you should go to beginning/end of document. Hold down SHIFT key and you'll select from the current cursor location to the cursor destination. Windows has Shift, CTRL, ALT keys. That's three modifier keys. The Windows key has typically never been used for an application-level shortcut key. I only know of OS-wide uses of the Windows key.

tpmoney 3y ago
I didn't even know until the prior poster ctrl-a and ctrl-e worked for mac apps. I guess someone added emacs binding in OS X at some point? I always learned the mac keyboard commands as: Arrow Left/Right/Up/Down -> Move by character Option + Left/Right -> Move by word Option + Up/Down -> Move by paragraph Cmd + Left/Right -> Move to beginning/end of line Cmd + Up/Down -> Move to beginning/end of text field Shift + any of the above highlights in that direction Page up/page down (on laptops Fn+up/down) -> Scroll up down by page (notably this doesn't move the cursor though, so you could scroll up to read something and then start typing to return to where you were) Home/End (on laptops Fn+left/right) -> Scroll to beginning/end of text field/document, with the same non-movement of the cursor Shift + any of the above also highlights, which does move the cursor I was thinking the other day as I was diving into finally trying to learn vim that this might be why I've never found whether an app had emacs or vim keybindings to be a particularly important feature. That sort of text field navigation has been available in any app using native UI elements since the classic mac OS days.
- nequo 3y ago
  Basic CUA bindings are good but I hope you didn’t stop learning Vim at jumping to the beginning/end of the line. Vim bindings do way more than that. I have physical discomfort editing serious text in a browser, and I know about Ctrl+arrow to move by word, etc. I do miss things like jumping by sentence, jumping by paragraph, jumping to the opening/closing paren/brace, etc.
  - tpmoney 3y ago
    No didn't stop there, but in reality so far I've found most of the other ones are more task specific, and a lot of them were already provided by the IDEs or software, whether or not it had vim bindings. Obviously the benefit of vim bindings is being able to take that short cut with you between IDEs and apps, but they're also functions I use a lot less, so re-learning them when I switch apps hasn't been too terrible.

tpmoney 3y ago

I didn't even know until the prior poster ctrl-a and ctrl-e worked for mac apps. I guess someone added emacs binding in OS X at some point? I always learned the mac keyboard commands as: Arrow Left/Right/Up/Down -> Move by character Option + Left/Right -> Move by word Option + Up/Down -> Move by paragraph Cmd + Left/Right -> Move to beginning/end of line Cmd + Up/Down -> Move to beginning/end of text field Shift + any of the above highlights in that direction Page up/page down (on laptops Fn+up/down) -> Scroll up down by page (notably this doesn't move the cursor though, so you could scroll up to read something and then start typing to return to where you were) Home/End (on laptops Fn+left/right) -> Scroll to beginning/end of text field/document, with the same non-movement of the cursor Shift + any of the above also highlights, which does move the cursor I was thinking the other day as I was diving into finally trying to learn vim that this might be why I've never found whether an app had emacs or vim keybindings to be a particularly important feature. That sort of text field navigation has been available in any app using native UI elements since the classic mac OS days.

nequo 3y ago
Basic CUA bindings are good but I hope you didn’t stop learning Vim at jumping to the beginning/end of the line. Vim bindings do way more than that. I have physical discomfort editing serious text in a browser, and I know about Ctrl+arrow to move by word, etc. I do miss things like jumping by sentence, jumping by paragraph, jumping to the opening/closing paren/brace, etc.
- tpmoney 3y ago
  No didn't stop there, but in reality so far I've found most of the other ones are more task specific, and a lot of them were already provided by the IDEs or software, whether or not it had vim bindings. Obviously the benefit of vim bindings is being able to take that short cut with you between IDEs and apps, but they're also functions I use a lot less, so re-learning them when I switch apps hasn't been too terrible.