I like Mac OS X and all, but there’s just one thing that really bugs me about the Mac – Apple’s contempt for the keyboard. I wanted to know if any of you out there know the answer to these problems:
- In Windows or Linux, you can hit the end key to go to the end of the line you’re typing or the home to get to the beginning. This neither works on my mac laptop nor my mac mini with a pc-keyboard.
- On any other OS, you can hit the tab key while editing a form and the tab not only goes to the text fields, it goes to radio buttons, select boxes, etc. But on Mac, these are skipped right over. Why?! Can I change this? It doesn’t matter what browser I use; I could use the same browser on all platforms with the same problem only on Mac.
These issues waste more time for me than even writing this blog! The keyboard is so fast and I want to bypass Mac’s Mouse-ocracy. As a programmer, these things are particularly frustrating!
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For reasons of consistency, the mac uses the same keys you would use in the terminal for moving to the beginning and end of text which is ctrl-a and ctrl-e. This is true of emacs as well. The tab stuff annoys me as well and I haven’t found a solution. I’ve pretty much decided that I’m moving to Linux at home. As soon as I can find a Photography workflow for Linux that works as well as Aperture, OS/X is out of here.