With MacOS certain simple things can be quite.....perplexing. Like 3 finger middle click on a touchpad, you need an App for that.. Such is the way with many of the seemingly "default" options in MacOS and probably the reason so much is "appified" in that ecosystem. The Apple devs probably just dont worry about such "minutia" that has made its way into other OS system defaults because they can just rely on a swift developer to make an app and try and charge $0.99 in the AppStore to enable something that would otherwise be default. So simple things like keyboard compatibility, or how responsive you want to dock to be, or things like snapping windows to a side of the screen need these weird customization settings. Thats enough ranting through, it is what it is in that ecosystem and Apple does some things pretty well. Their security defaults are solid, especially if you arent someone that is prone to caring much about things like full disk encryption because you simply dont understand it.
Anyhow, not the topic for today. The MacOS terminal isnt bad, comparable to most of the others I have used. But one thing that nagged me about the terminal app is how the Home/End keys basically don't behave.
Heres a quick fix.
Pull up the Terminal Settings and navigate to your default profile and go to the keyboard options.
Fill it out like so and hit OK:
Here are some other *nix friendly keycodes:
- home :: \033OH
- end :: \033OF
- F1 :: \033[11~
- F2 :: \033[12~
- F3 :: \033[13~
- F4 :: \033[14~
Source is from an old blog post that seems to have been hijacked to advertise spam. But here is the archive of the post.
