Well, no.

Mac people expect their Butler to carefully hold the coffee cup for them and tilt it so they can take a sip.

My butler chortled

On my old Dell xps 14 laptop, the function button was close to the arrow keys, making it very convenient to use one-handed. I actually preferred it to a separate home button, because, in a text box, I often want to jump to the start/end of a line and then move a word or two inward -- do-able using control+arrows. It was almost as good as vim, although of course I had to take my hand off the home row.

Imagine vim editing across all text fields in an OS. Would be glorious.

macOS has a lot of baked in emacs keybindings that work almost universally in text fields.

Control-A: Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph.

Control-E: Move to the end of a line or paragraph.

Control-F: Move one character forward.

Control-B: Move one character backward.

Control-L: Center the cursor or selection in the visible area.

Control-P: Move up one line.

Control-N: Move down one line.

Control-O: Insert a new line after the insertion point.

Control-T: Swap the character behind the insertion point with the character in front of the insertion point.

"Almost universally" even includes Electron apps, surprisingly!

Home and end are most useful for me when I'm writing or programming, so both of my hands are on the keyboard anyway. I think I actually find these key combos more useful than a dedicated home or end button, as I'd have to move my hands a lot further for those.

> Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer?

I mean, not while using the keyboard, no. Typing is a two-handed activity.

They don’t. A Starbucks cup is too heavy to hold it for a long period of time.

I'm tired just thinking about this.

right cmd + up arrow and you end up with free cofee-hand

it dorsnt work with cmd

It does for me. I've always used ⌘+up and ⌘+down to go to the top and bottom of the page. After eight years of using Macs, I didn't even know you could use the function key as suggested above.

Personally, I don't get caught up on pressing two buttons on my keyboard at the same time in the circumstance I'm literally doing something else.

Accelerated scrolling makes the home key superfluous. Just scroll "fast".

Yeah, unless the doc is dozens+ pages long. Say, a book on a single page. Then it’s real nice to have a key sequence to get around. Going to the start or end of a long document is an infrequent enough operation I think a two hand sequence is fine.

I use both home and end constantly while coding. Writing text not so much, but it still does happen. Sure, you could do without, but...

On a mac you'd use Control-A and Control-E to navigate to the beginning and end of a line. IIRC Home and End navigate the document, not the line.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201236

Hm, that would indeed be an alternative. I never tried hooking up a (windows-) keyboard to a mac, but don't see why it shouldn't work. Question is if the software or editors support the key layout.