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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by rbanffy on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:28AM (#17416659)
> Keyboard lacked home, end

^A, ^E, just like on a terminal or Emacs. ^K deletes to the end of the line.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by reitanqild on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:58AM (#17417364)
Learned that.

But it doesn't compose with shift for selection.

I also learned and still use the official workaround for that which is pretty nice often: shift + arrow up/down while on start/end of a line

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by foldr on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:54AM (#17417959)
>But it doesn't compose with shift for selection.

Yes it does. Ctrl+Shift+E selects the text up to the end of the line.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by rbanffy on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:30PM (#17418324)
As an interesting note, it doesn't work with MS Office.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by foldr on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:51PM (#17418531)
Well, that's one problem you wouldn't have on Linux I guess.
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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by rbanffy on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:06PM (#17418658)
On Linux ^A on a terminal (and on Emacs) behaves as God intended it to, but on a GUI it's usually "select all". It's really awful (albeit it kind of compensate for that with the select+middle-click dance).
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