I quite often find myself needing to move the cursor to the beginning or the end of the line.
Is there a keyboard shortcut or other magic trick to move the cursor apart from the arrow keys.
Cursor navigation in Terminal
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Related Solutions
You can use Better Touch Tool for this (it's no longer free, 5$ minimum), just assign keyboard shortcuts to work in Terminal app only. Remap ⌘ CMD+← to ⌃ CTRL+A and ⌘ CMD+→ to ⌃ CTRL+E. Here's the sample:
There's no shortcut to my knowledge but if you are willing to get your hands a little dirty you can easily achieve this with a combination of 3rd party software, here is how I'd go about it:
- Download and install MouseTools.
- Download and install Keyboard Maestro.
- Add KM Macro based on keys combination (to switch from one screen to another, one Macro for each display).
- Finally for each macro add the Shell action with MouseTools -x xValue -y yValue (which are the coordinate on the display where you want the mouse to land).
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Best Answer
^ + A for the beginning of the line
^ + E for the end of the line.
Works with Cocoa control too.
^ = Ctrl