Comments on: Key bindings for switchers

By: Jeff R

Jeff R — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:27:03 +0000

Thanks!

I don't know if it's just that I've spent so much time in Windows, but I do rely on the home and end keys.

But LF's link to the Cocoa key bindings really helps; now that I know what the standard Cocoa keys are, it shouldn't take too much time to rework the muscle memory.

By: roger

roger — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:53:16 +0000

Alt-PageUp and Alt-PageDown still have the functions I would like to use but it seems that they are no longer mapped to pageUp: or :pageDown in Snow Leopard. At least the given keymappings do not work anymore on Snow Leopard.

By: RC

RC — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:33:26 +0000

Ok, I just tried this on my buddy's computer and I gotta say that was super rad. I cannot the underestimate the importance of the 'Home' and 'End' keys (having switched from Windows.)

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:23:48 +0000

Please excuse the last post: it's a redundant reference to the Cocoabits KeyBindingsEditor (noticed after submitting that someone had already mentioned it… oops)

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:04:26 +0000

Finding this was the perfect start to resolving my challenge, but then I stumbled upon an even easier solution:

http://www.cocoabits.com/KeyBindingsEditor/

While it's simple enough to edit ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict, this little freebie app simplifies the process by providing not only a GUI frontend, but more importantly, it reveals all the actions available.

If you already had created a DefaultKeyBinding.dict file, you might want to back it up before using the program, as it overwrites it with a different format.

Muscle memory is persistent, isn't it? Enjoy.

By: David Troyer

David Troyer — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:21:41 +0000

lovely.

By: Plamen

Plamen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:45:28 +0000

Hello, I tried everything written in here and I managed to make Home and End buttons to work.

However Home-Shift, End-Shift won't do anything but a "beep" sound. The cursor wouldn't even move.

Please help...What could be the problem?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:20:02 +0000

what about keyboard maestro?

By: coderguy

coderguy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:06:26 +0000

Works perfectly on my Hackint0sh.

But is missing the feature of "jump words".

I could archieve this using the following code:

/* jump words */
"@\UF702" = "moveWordLeft:";
"@\UF703" = "moveWordRight:";

/* jump words with selection */
"$@\UF702" = "moveWordLeftAndModifySelection:";
"$@\UF703" = "moveWordRightAndModifySelection:";

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:40:19 +0000

This fix (on Leopard) seems to drive my page up/down crazy.

It still seems to want to "animate" the page up/down at the same time is trying to move the cursor, and so many times it confuses itself. I want something that works as cleanly as opt+pageup/down which doesn't animate.

Could this have anything to do with my keyboard? I'm using a Macally Icekey keyboard. Which is supposed to be made for macs...