In my continuing trend of hacking OSX to behave the way I want am accustomed to, I spent Monday night reclaiming my home and end keys. I knew I had seen this hack somewhere before, I just had to find it again. This comes courtesy of Aaron Adams, via The Tao of Mac:
To change the Mac’s home and end keys to behave like Windows, create a text file named /Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict (if the folder doesn’t exist, go ahead and create it) and add these lines:
/* Home/End keys like Windows */
{
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:";
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
}
Logout and login, and the home and end keys will work like Windows.
No more command-left. Oh frabjous day.
I finally got fed up with the way OSX handles application switching. Quite frankly, I missed the Alt-Tab ways of Windows, and set my mind to making that work on my Powerbook. Fortunately, I wasn’t alone in my desires, as someone has already written the exact program I need to do this. Please follow along…
- Download and install Witch.
This will give you window-switching ala Microsoft via the alt-tab key. The Dock’s application switcher will still reside on command-tab. If you’re happy with this, then you’re done. If you’re like me, you’re going to want Witch to use command-tab, but this isn’t going to work without a bit of trickery.
- Download and install the Unsanity Application Enhancer.
This will give you a nice framework for other hacks and such. For our purposes, this will allow us to continue on to step 3…
- Download and install Pulltab. Log out and back in.
At this point, command-tab no longer belongs to the Dock. You are now free to go back into the Witch control pane and assign the “All applications” cycle keys to command-tab and shift-command-tab.
Sit back and enjoy Windows-style application switching…