Untamed Wilds » programmer http://thomaswebb.net Human ecology, human action and human nature Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:38:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ah, now Mac OS X is finally behaving… http://thomaswebb.net/2009/06/29/ah-now-mac-os-x-is-finally-behaving/ http://thomaswebb.net/2009/06/29/ah-now-mac-os-x-is-finally-behaving/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:22:24 +0000 Thomas J. Webb http://thomaswebb.net/?p=454 Continue reading →]]> I mentioned in a post earlier about my frustrations w/ the mac keyboard. I finally got around to being frustrated enough to google and (pretty simply) solve the issues I had. Basically, as a programmer the craaaazy way home and end work on mac is unacceptable. The Windows & UNIX way is better (home and end of the line, not the document). Here are the relevant, helpful posts:

http://blog.dubh.org/2007/11/configuring-mac-os-x-terminal.html
http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2006/keyfixer/

Old posts, but very, very helpful. There really should just be a system-wide option, something like “home and end keys operate on line, not document”. Indeed, the primary reason I’m making such a banal post is I hope Apple’s marketing research finds this and maybe does something about making the growing UNIX nerd & programmer user base a lot happier..

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