On 1/21/06, Joe Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My HOME and END keys do not work in apps which (presumably) use OS text
> > editing services. Pressing them without modifier keys does nothing (but,
> > they're supposed to take you to the beginning and end of lines).
>
> They really aren't. Uparrow and downarrow do, and have on Macs since time
> immemorial. This isn't Windows. I don't even bother using the keystrokes
> you're complaining about; perhaps they've been added to the repertoire,
> but they are not the longstanding keystrokes.
<old man voice>"Sonny, I've been using them Macs since the beginning
of time. When I was young we had to use chisels and magnets to write
the files on those 400 K "floppy" disks which weren't floppy at all
and that was when my floppys had more memory than my rams, and, my
roms. That's a completely different story. They were so big back then
compared to the rams..."
Seriously though (and, I'm not trying to imply anything about your
loyalty to Mac or your knowledge of Mac... there are many things I
don't know about Mac and I've been using them since the beginning of
Mac time), I am fairly sure they were activated pretty soon after
Apple came out with the extended keyboard (was that 1986 or 1987?).
What leads me to suspect a recent mess up by Apple is that I was
profoundly confused when the home and end keys did work as expected
yesterday. Keyboard-type stuff is 2nd nature to me so anything out of
the ordinary may not necessarily become evident right away and I won't
be able to lay my finger on the problem immediately (often it's the
case that Apple hasn't quite cleaned up some interface snafu so I just
ignore the problem and work around it).
Anyway, everyone I've _spoken_ to has OS X 10.4.4 so I'm no further
ahead. On another list (MUGLO) numerous people wrote to say that the
home and end keys worked as advertised on earlier versions of Mac OS X
(and one person in 10.4.4 claimed they worked to go to the start/end
of line... perhaps it's a configuration by configuration item).
Well, I'm still no further ahead. Both my Mac mini and PowerBook
exhibit the same behaviour but, then again, they're both running OS X
10.4.4 and both are running Kensington Mouseworks (that's the only
kext I permit myself). Perhaps it's MouseWorks (if so, I guess I'll
have to get used to non-functional home/end keys until they fix their
software b/c MouseWorks is just too much of a useful productivity
tool).
Eric.
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