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Troy [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:36:06 +0000

Thanks heaps for this, worked a treat.

San [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:26:43 +0000

Thanks you for this. I love that you wrote this up with the alternatives and explanations and it was only a google search away!

Thanks.

Tennessee Leeuwenburg [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:05:45 +0000

2011 model macbook air. Success. Thank you very much!

Michael [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:42:21 +0000

Another success. Thanks!

Raj [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:16:20 +0000

Thanks a lot..Worked for me :)

nodmonkey [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:56:46 +0000

You may also want to include a note for laptop users who don’t have Home/End keys and want to use CTRL-leftarrow and CTRL-rightarrow to achieve the same cursor movement.

The OS keyboard shortcuts have CTRL-leftarrow and CTRL-rightarrow mapped to “move left a space” and “move right a space” respectively under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control. When you only have one space setup (the default), it is not easy to tell this is what the keys do.

These shortcuts overrule the Terminal keyboard settings, so you need to change or disable them if you want to use those key combinations to navigate in Terminal.

admin [Member] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:41:14 +0000

I updated for Mountain Lion and I also listed all possible escape sequences that were recommended here. I highlighted the ones that seem to work everywhere.

Tim [Visitor] in response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:24:40 +0000

As of OSX 10.6.8, the correct fix is:

Terminal->Preferences->Settings->Keyboard->+

Key: home or end
Modifier: none
Action: send string to shell

Then for the sequence PRESS ESCAPE (or CTRL-[ ) to get a “\033″ and then type “[H” or “[F” for home and end so the full thing is “\033[H” or “\033[F".

It’s worth noting that these are already bound to Shift-Home and Shift-End (which are obtained with Shift-Fn-Left and Shift-Fn-Right). So if you can change your habits slightly you don’t actually need to reconfigure anything.

Francois: it would be nice if you updated your post to reflect this, since it is the first result in Google and I doubt many people are going to read down the comments this far.