As a PC user by day, Mac user by night, I have a few gripes. One of them deals with the Mac's implementation of the Home and End keys. I think Windows has won here by assigning less frequent tasks to modifier key combinations. The Mac, on other hand, takes you to the top or bottom of a page without modifier keys. To make matters worse, the default action does not move your cursor along with the change in view. It's rare that I'd ever want to do this and by not moving the cursor along, it's fairly useless. I'm constantly misusing them to the point of being distracted by it.
I found a utility app called DoubleCommand that goes a long way to solving the problem. The app was made for users to remap keys when using PC keyboards on a Mac. It has an option to make Home/End behave more PC-like. Amen. Press the End key by itself and you'll go the the end of current LINE. Vice versa for the Home key. Holding Shift down while pressing these keys selects the text along the way.
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