Surviving MacOSX: Navigating through text

Being today my first 'official' day as a Mac user, I was prepared to experience some annoyances. The first one was realizing that the "Home" and "End" keys seemed to be completely useless.

I later learned that, in fact, they just worked completely different than expected on a PC, which didn't bring any closure. On a PC, the "Home" and "End" keys take you to the beginning and end of a line, respectively. On a Mac, they work at the document level. This is particularly annoying for me because I am keeping my PC keyboard, since I am using both the new Mac and my old PC at the same time.

Fortunately, there's a work around.

As explained in this article at LifeHacker, it is possible to create a key bindings dictionary file that will make the "Home" and "End" keys work "correctly."

Thanks to Mark Llobrera, a friend and co-worker at Domani, for finding this for me.

Now, on to fixing navigation through words... actually, it seems to work with the Alt key, instead of Ctrl.

Got a lot of key re-mapping to do.