Control Key for Home & End on Command-line in Terminal on Mac OS X

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What are the control keys to move the cursor to the beginning and end of the command-line? The Home and End keys don't work in Terminal on Mac OS X.

Timo · Answer 1 · 2010-05-04 18:33:58Z

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ctrl-A and ctrl-E

answered May 4 '10 at 18:33

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voretaq7 · Answer 2 · 2010-05-04 19:23:40Z

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shift-Home and Shift-End will work.
So will disabling the brain-damaged default Home & End behavior:

Open Terminal Preferences->Settings
Select your profile
On the Keyboard tab find & remove the bindings for Home (scroll to start of buffer) & End (scroll to end of buffer)

answered May 4 '10 at 19:23

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	(Note that if your console app treats the `shift-home`/`shift-end` combo specially the above won't work, so I recommend disabling the brain-damaged default behavior :-) – voretaq7♦ May 4 '10 at 19:25
	I like this answer, too, but I can't mark both. – user24932 May 4 '10 at 22:13

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