Home Key On Mac

• Home Key On Mac Keyboard
• Home Key On Mac

The Home key is commonly found on desktop and laptopkeyboards. The key has the opposite effect of the End key. In limited-size keyboards where the Home key is missing the same functionality can be reached via the key combination of Fn+←.

Its standard symbol ⇱ from ISO/IEC 9995-7, ie. U+21F1⇱NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER, is used on some full-size keyboards instead of a possibly localized text label.

Microsoft Windows[edit]

In modern Microsoft Windows text editing applications, it is primarily used to return the cursor to the beginning of the line where the cursor is located. When the text is not editable, the Home key is used to return to the beginning of the document; this can also be done in editable text if the key is pressed along with Control.

The Home key can also be used to select all the characters before the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with ⇧ Shift in selectable text.

macOS[edit]

Only full-sized Apple keyboards have a Home key. On most macOS applications, the key works like the original on UNIX in the days of dumb-terminals, where Home moves to the start of a document. When the key is pressed, the window scrolls to the top, while the caret position does not change at all; that is, the Home key is tied to the current window, not the text box being edited.^[1][2] On Apple keyboards that do not have a Home key, one can press Fn+← for the Home key functionality described above. To get the same result as the Windows platform (that is, moving the insertion point to the beginning of the current line of text), one can press ⌘ Command+←. An application can also be used to change this behaviour.^[3]

Home / End Scroll to top/bottom Other operating systems' keyboard shortcuts and additional unassigned shortcuts available at aka.ms/vscodekeybindings Keyboard shortcuts for macOS. However, T hey can make some shortcuts seem complicated on a Mac because you have to use more keys. Note: If you're using an extended keyboard on a Mac, you don't need to worry about substitutions, since you'll have keys for Home, End, Page up, etc. Extended keyboards have all the keys. Ribbon shortcuts.

Linux[edit]

1. Easy method to Map / Re-map keys on a Mac, Lots of features. Ukelele for Mac: Questions? Comment or Tweet us.
2. The PC-keyboard equivalent of Alt on a Mac is called the Option key, and you'll find the Option Key on your Mac if you go two keys to the left of the spacebar. However, the option key on a Mac keyboard is used in a different way than the alt key on a Windows PC.

In Linux, the Home key has basically the same functionality as it does on Windows. It returns the cursor to the beginning of the line in editable text, and otherwise scrolls a scrollable document to the beginning. Also, like Windows, the Home key can be used to select all the characters before the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with ⇧ Shift in editable text.

Home Key On Mac Keyboard

Non-GUI applications[edit]

In older screen-oriented, text-based (non-GUI) applications, the user often accessed the 'screen' they wanted through a series of menu screens with numbered options. The Home key took the user to the 'top' menu screen.

Home Key On Mac

References[edit]

1. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2010-06-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2006-11-06. Retrieved 2006-10-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. ^http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/63972/104745