<p>I've switched over to a Mac recently and, although things have been going quite well, the very different text-editing behaviours across applications is driving me insane.</p>

<p><kbd>Home</kbd>, <kbd>End</kbd>, <kbd>Page Up</kbd>, <kbd>Page Down</kbd>, <kbd>Apple-arrow</kbd>, <kbd>Ctrl-arrow</kbd>, <kbd>alt-arrow</kbd> etc. quite often do different things depending on the application.</p>

<p>Is there a way to standardise this behaviour?</p>

[{'answer_id': 33983, 'author': 'Orion Edwards', 'author_id': 234, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/234', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>There are standards, but they are not based around what you\'re used to from windows. It drove me mad until I got over myself and decided to learn what the actual standards were. Since then I\'ve been sold.</p>\n\n<p>The ones I use:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><kbd>Command</kbd>-<kbd>Left</kbd>/<kbd>Right</kbd> - Jump to start/end of line\n\n<ul>\n<li>Can also do this with <kbd>ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>a</kbd>/<kbd>e</kbd> which is great if you\'re used to ssh</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><p><kbd>Command</kbd>-<kbd>Up</kbd>/<kbd>Down</kbd> - Jump to top/bottom of text field or document</p></li>\n<li><p><kbd>Option</kbd>-<kbd>Left</kbd>/<kbd>Right</kbd> - Jump to start/end of word or previous/next word</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>These basically replace <kbd>home</kbd>/<kbd>end</kbd>/<kbd>pgup</kbd>/<kbd>pgdown</kbd>, and <kbd>ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>left</kbd>/<kbd>right</kbd> from the windows world.</p>\n\n<p>I find this to be a massive win due to the fact I have a macbook pro and almost no laptops have proper <kbd>home</kbd>/<kbd>end</kbd>/<kbd>pgup</kbd>/<kbd>pgdown</kbd> keys - not needing them in OSX is a godsend</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here\'s a big list of the rest of them</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 34634, 'author': 'Chris Karcher', 'author_id': 2773, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2773', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>And what's funny (and frustrating!) is that the Microsoft <strong>OS X</strong> apps (e.g. Entourage) use the <strong>Windows</strong> standards.</p>\n\n<p>I develop on WinXP during the day but have an iMac at home, so it's confusing enough trying to switch modes between work and home.  But then I have to remember if I'm writing an e-mail in Entourage, I need to revert back to Windows mode.</p>\n\n<p>I can't think of any good reason why MS wouldn't follow the OS X keyboard standards...</p>\n"}]
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