Comments on: Pages 1.0.x: No keyboard shortcut to move insertion point to beginning/end of document? http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/ Notes from an unfinished world… Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:48:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/comment-page-1/#comment-3099 Pierre Igot Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:38:28 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/#comment-3099 I should add that the only application that does things right is BBEdit. In BBEdit, both sets of shortcuts work. I should add that the only application that does things right is BBEdit. In BBEdit, both sets of shortcuts work.

]]> By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/comment-page-1/#comment-3098 Pierre Igot Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:35:20 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/#comment-3098 Argh. Indeed, it works. I guess it's the bad influence of Microsoft Word, where, for the longest time, command-Up and command-Down were shortcuts for moving up/down by one paragraph. Indeed in Pages, Mail, and TextEdit, and even in Safari, command-Up and command-Down move the insertion point to the beginning or end of the area you are currently editing (text document, body of e-mail message, text field). Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I guess a case could still be made that Apple should have provided some redundancy here and made command-Home and command-End work the same way as well, at least in Pages, where they are not used for anything else. After all, as I explain above, the Home and End keys are indeed used in shortcuts for commands that involve going to the beginning or the end of the document. It would be logical. Filing an "enhancement request" right now :). Thanks again. Argh. Indeed, it works. I guess it’s the bad influence of Microsoft Word, where, for the longest time, command-Up and command-Down were shortcuts for moving up/down by one paragraph.

Indeed in Pages, Mail, and TextEdit, and even in Safari, command-Up and command-Down move the insertion point to the beginning or end of the area you are currently editing (text document, body of e-mail message, text field).

Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I guess a case could still be made that Apple should have provided some redundancy here and made command-Home and command-End work the same way as well, at least in Pages, where they are not used for anything else.

After all, as I explain above, the Home and End keys are indeed used in shortcuts for commands that involve going to the beginning or the end of the document. It would be logical.

Filing an “enhancement request” right now :). Thanks again.

]]> By: Henning http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/comment-page-1/#comment-3097 Henning Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:31:07 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/01/pages-10x-no-keyboard-shortcut-to-move-insertion-point-to-beginningend-of-document/#comment-3097 On my ibook it's just Command-Up resp. Command-Down. Should be the same on an external keyboard. - It's the same in TextEdit or in Mail, so I assume that it's the general shortcut in any Cocoa app?! On my ibook it’s just Command-Up resp. Command-Down. Should be the same on an external keyboard. – It’s the same in TextEdit or in Mail, so I assume that it’s the general shortcut in any Cocoa app?!

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