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> And you cannot make up for missing keys with key combos.

If you're saying you can't replicate those keys with key combos: Fn-Up Arrow, Fn-Down Arrow, Fn-Left Arrow and Fn-Right Arrow perform PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End, respectively.

If you're saying key combos are not a suitable replacement for those keys being not present: Well, I make do, personally.

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Yeah, I personally prefer the fn+arrow key instead of having a dedicated key for these functions.

I take it you don't use them in key combinations then. Ctrl+Home, stuff like that.

Ctrl + FN + Up, right? It makes complete sense to me. Going back to Windows (gaming PC) feel really counterintuitive.

Yeah, I use Shift+Pg Up all the time in the terminal: on the laptop keyboard, at least, you can hit Fn+Shift or Fn+Ctrl with one finger and then the arrow key with another.

Home/End can also be accomplished with Cmd up/down.

Or (EDIT: whoops, Ctrl not Cmd) Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E, Emacs style. In fact, a lot of Emacs navigation combos work just about everywhere on macOS. I have a keyboard with all of the keys the laptop keyboard leaves off, but I find that I don’t use them on macOS.

Cmd-a is select all in OSX by default and Cmd-e does nothing for me. The capital versions don't do anything noteworthy for me either. In emacs, home/end would be M-< and M-> no? To your point, Ctrl-a/e/f/b/n/p all work as they do in emacs in OSX.

They meant ctrl-a and ctrl-e.

CMD-e used to be "eject selected disk" in Finder/desktop. Will thus also cause the error-"bloing"/"don't know what you want"- sound on most macOS versions, if nothing suitable is selected.

CMD-e is apply the selected text to the search input. Extremely useful, search for the next instance of a word you see on the screen is thus:

Double click word CMD-e CMD-g

Don't know what (which program) you are referring to, I was referring to official MacOS shortcuts and the Finder [1] (Search for "Command-E")

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

Slightly different, in text documents at least. Cmd up/down move the cursor position to start or end. Home/End move the viewport but leave the cursor where it is.

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