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eigencoder 6 hours ago

Does ctrl+a not work for you? ctrl+a and ctrl+e work for me across every app I use on my Mac.

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delecti 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It seems it does. Thank you.

That is a very strange keyboard shortcut when the home and end keys exist though.

Edit: It seems that Ctrl+A actually moves back to just after the most recent newline. That is not the same thing as moving back to the start of the line.

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eigencoder 5 hours ago | parent [-]

These keyboard shortcuts are also used in emacs; I'm not sure if that's the source of their inclusion in MacOS or if they have a common ancestor between them.

What's the difference between "just after the most recent newline" and the start of the line?

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delecti 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The difference is when the current paragraph of text has line wrapped. Home on Windows goes back to the start of the current line, Ctrl+A on Mac goes back to the start of the current paragraph.

	▲	eigencoder an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, yeah I get what you mean. I think I've seen the one you want, it might be CMD+arrow key.