Mac OS X Terminal.app Key Bindings for Beginning of Line and End of Line

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Written By Darla Baker

Regardless of the OS I'm using, I spend the majority of my time ssh'd to some linux server somewhere around the globe. Recently I've switched from using Ubuntu as my client-side OS and am now using a MacBook Pro. I have small Mac keyboard and a magic mouse. From both the Microsoft and Linux universe, I'm used to having keys on the keyboard that I no longer have on the Mac. So I'm having to learn new Key Bindings and it is a bit challenging at times. There are many new key bindings to learn, but for this article I'll focus on two that drove me nuts until I decided to research the problem and commit another set of new key bindings to memory.

control-A will take you to the beginning of the line in the Terminal app control-E will take you to the end of the line in the Terminal app

Please feel free to add additional useful Mac key bindings for a former Ubuntu user.

Darla Baker

Darla Baker is the author of the Amazon best-selling novel Eagle Cove (Thalia Chase: Sex Therapist Series, Book One). She is the founder of Stone Soup Community, a non-profit press focusing on helping queer writers market their books.

Darla lives with her wife on the shores of beautiful Lake Cumberland, Kentucky during lake season and on the road in her custom campervan, Dulcinea, the rest of the year. Her adorable staffy, Mati, is always by her side.

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