I never noticed how often I use the “home” and “end” keys when I type until they were taken away from me. I am a programmer by trade, and as a result, I type code all day long. On a PC the end key will take you to the end of a line, and the home key will bring you to the beginning of a line. On a mac, this functionality doesn’t exist. It’s simple missing! It just makes a “ding” at me
Maybe it would be different if I was using a mac keyboard with my mac mini. Right now I am using a KVM switch to share my microsoft mouse and keyboard with my PC and my Mini. As a result, My mind and hands continue to type and work just like I was coding using a PC. “DING DING DING” damn its annoying. I had no idea i hit those keys so often, but the mini does a good job at reminding me 
I tried to live with it but it got old fast. I decided to do a google search for “home end keys mac” to see if there was a fix for this. The first result was a God send. keyfixer is a tiny application for pc-to-mac switchers like me, that remaps your keyboard and adds back the functionality of the home and end keys.
It’s amazing how much more productive I feel just by having those 2 keys back. I guess after 15+ years of typing/programing for a living, the home and end keys are a perminiate part of my arsenal and I will never underestimate their power ever again.
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Just a note – command left and command right often work the same as home and end do on the pc. Granted I’m still very annoyed (and am often reminded of how often I use them as well
) but at least the functionality exists. Generally if command left or command right doesn’t work control a and control e will (like the terminal). Not as nice, but another solution.
The problem is that Beginning-of-Line and End-of-Line are mapped to different keys in different applications. In Adium, they’re mapped to the “Home” and “End” keys since cmd+left and cmd+right are used to switch tabs. In TextMate, it’s cmd+left. This drives me nuts. lol
“alt” + (L & R direction keys) moves the cursor to end of next WORD
“cmd” + (L & R direction keys) moves the cursor to end of LINE
Ahhh… some relief………
THANKYOU!