Make Home and End keys behave like Windows on Mac OS X

The default behavior for the home and end keys on Mac OS X is not very useful. I almost never need to jump right to the top or bottom of a page and when I do I use the page up and page down keys. I almost constantly find myself needing to jump to the end and beginning of a line and that is what the home/end keys should do. I tried doing things “the Mac way” for a couple years and these keys just weren’t as fast and practical as they are on Linux or Windows. There is a solution for this, see below.

Edit the following file in your home directory. If the file or subdirectories don’t exist, create them.

Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict

{
  "\UF729"  = moveToBeginningOfParagraph:; // home
  "\UF72B"  = moveToEndOfParagraph:; // end
} 

This may need to be adjusted slightly depending on which version you are running. You may still run into issues with programs such as OneNote which don’t respect system settings and don’t give you a way to override their own settings. Your mileage may vary.

Really your best bet is to aquire and configure a macro pad such as the following: Nice Macro Pad