MacOS - Keyboard Mappings
Switching to MacOS after decades on Windows and Linux felt strange in many places. Things work somehow, but not quite how you expect. One of the first oddities I ran into was the keyboard mapping. Not Talking about CTRL-ALT-META-CMD stuff, this is a whole “getting used to” learning curve on it’s own. But if you’re using a regular “IBM PC” layout which is mostly identical on Windows and Linux Desktop, on macOS some keys act… unpredictable. Specifically, Home and End keys don’t do what you would expect them to do. Instead of jumping to the start or end of a line, they scroll entire documents or behave differently depending on the app. In editors like VS Code? No problem, they work fine. But TextEdit, Office or some others and suddenly they behave totally different. ...