OS X Terminal shortcut Jump to beginning end of line

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I know that I can jump to the beginning and end of a line inside the OS X terminal with Ctrl A and Ctrl   E  But I m so used to jumping with Cmd Right arrow and Cmd Left arrow from my editor  that I would love to use these shortcuts for the terminal too  I haven t found a solution with Google  so maybe here someone can help  Update As in the comments  I tried the solution from How to move the cursor word by word in the OS X Terminal Unfortunately  the Terminal settings seems to not include Cmd as a Modifier Key  as you can see here

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Here I found a tweak for this  without any third party tool  This will make the following shortcut to work   fn   right  to go to the end of the line   fn   left  to go to the beginning of the line    Open terminal preferences  cmd       Go to your selected theme and then to the keyboard tab      And add a new entry as following     That s all  Now close and check  Hope it helps    EDIT  Refer to the comment by  Maurice Gilden below for more insights

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This worked for me Option   left-arrow or Option   right-arrow for moving the cursor to the start or end of the line  Mac Os Version  Catalina

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For iterm2   Go to Profiles   Open Profiles   Keys   Set    Cmd   left arrow key to Send Hex Code 001   Set Cmd   right arrow key to Send Hex Code 005   This allows you to use Cmd   arrow keys to move from beginning to end of the line

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For latest mac os  Below shortcuts works for me   Jump to beginning of the line    shift   fn   RightArrow  Jump to ending of the line    shift   fn   LeftArrow

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I use a handy app called Karabiner to do this  and many other things   It s free and open source   It s a keyboard remapper  with a lot of handy presets for many common remaps that people may want to do   As you can see from the screenshot  this remap is included as a preset in Karabiner     Hope this helps   Happy remapping

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As setup in the terminal using vi   The Home button on a Macbook Pro keyboard  Fn   Left Arrow    The End button on a Macbook Pro keyboard  Fn   Right Arrow

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in iterm2      fn   leftArraw or fn   rightArrow   this worked for me

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fn   shift   leftArrow   goto beginning of line fn   shift   rightArrow   goto end of line   these work for me

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You could download Better Touch  Tools  It s an app that allows you to make custom key-bindings and shortcuts over your entire system or individual apps  Using it  you could make a shortcut in the terminal that emulates ctrl-a ctrl-e whenever you press cmd-left cmd-right  respectively  I definitely recommend it  I ve been using it for years and I have over 50 shortcuts spread across several different apps

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In the latest Mac OS You can use shift   home or shift   end

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I am not sure if this will work for you  I still use OS 10 8   but these work for my terminal   home   move cursor to the start of the line shift end   move cursor to the end of the line  alt leftArrow   move one  word  to the left alt rightArrow   move one  word  to the right   Hope this helps

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fn   leftArraw or fn   rightArrow worked for me

[macos] OS X Terminal shortcut: Jump to beginning/end of line

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