Pressing the "HOME" or "END" keys scrolls instead of moving the cursor

[OrionNebula]

What did you do?

• Press the "HOME" or "END" key on the keyboard while editing a SQL query

What did you expect to happen?

• I expected to be able to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current line

What actually happened?

• The editor pane scrolled to the beginning or end of the query, but the cursor didn't move

What software versions are you using?

Postico version:
1.5.7

macOS version:
Mojave 10.14.5

[jakob]

That's the default behavior of "HOME" and "END" on macOS. They scroll to the top / bottom of the scrollview.

The default keyboard shortcut for moving to the beginning / end of the selected line on macOS is cmd-left arrow or cmd-right arrow. Since macOS also supports a lot of emacs key bindings, ctrl-a and ctrl-e also move to the beginning / end of the current line.

The only text editor that I have installed that uses the jump to beginning/end of line behavior for home/end is VS Code. All other editors that I have tried (Sublime, TextMate, TextEdit, Xcode) have the standard macOS behavior.

While I agree that the standard macOS behavior is not the most useful (I can't recall ever having used home/end keys), I still don't want to deviate from platform standards.

Fortunately, macOS has awesome support for changing default key bindings!

If you place the follwong file in ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict you can change the default behavior system wide:

{
/* Remap Home / End to be correct on Mac */
"\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";                   /* Home         */
"\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";                         /* End          */
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Home */
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";       /* Shift + End  */
}

(source of the above: https://gist.github.com/seven1m/199361)

Please note that you need to quit and restart Postico after changing the DefaultKeyBinding.dict file.

[OrionNebula]

This worked great for me, thanks so much!

[jbird55044]

Awesome - Thank you!!