Standard Keyboard Functionality: Shift + End/Home doesn't work

[derekperkins]

• VSCode Version: 1.4
• OS Version: MacOS 10.11.6

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Shift + End doesn't select from the current cursor location to the end of the line.
2. Shift + Home doesn't select from the current cursor location to the beginning of the line.

[amc123-glitch]

Have you gone into your preferences and then click on keyboard shortcuts? when you click that it will bring up the shortcuts and a page for keybindings that you can set those two functions and override the default. Here is a link to the list of keyboard functions as well https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization/keybindings

[derekperkins]

Those commands are in the default bindings. The alternate shift+cmd+right works, but shift+end does not work, at least for me. It also doesn't work if I paste them into my user settings, which should override any extensions if those were overriding the built ins.

{ "key": "shift+cmd+right",       "command": "cursorEndSelect",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+end",             "command": "cursorEndSelect",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" },
...
{ "key": "shift+cmd+left",        "command": "cursorHomeSelect",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "shift+home",            "command": "cursorHomeSelect",
                                     "when": "editorTextFocus" },

[derekperkins]

And to clarify, shift+end and shift+home work in both Sublime and Atom on my machine, so I don't think there's an issue with my keyboard not registering correctly.

[sandy081]

@derekperkins shift+end and shift+home keyboard shortcuts are working as expected for me.

On Mac I used following keys for

end : fn + right arrow
home: fn + left arrow

Can you please try with these and let me know if it is still not working.

Thanks

[derekperkins]

That combo worked for me, but an external keyboard with physical End/Home buttons does not work when combined with Shift. Inside VSCode, I can use Home and End and they work as expected, but Shift + End or Shift + Home does nothing. Those same commands do work in Sublime, Atom, Microsoft Word, etc, so correct keybindings are being sent.

[alexdima]

I have validated that we now (i.e. after PR #22894 aka #17521 -- in today's Insiders build) appear to behave correctly for these keys. I have attached a standard QWERTY keyboard to a mac mini and configured OSX to use the US layout. Pressing the Home/End keys appear to be interpreted correctly: