I want to go to the start of the line

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  • Lettera Version: 1.0.0 (4091)
  • macOS Version: Latest Mac OS 26
  • What were you doing:
    • i am pressing the home button
  • What feature did you use:
    • editor
  • What happened:
    • i am going to the top of the page
  • What did you expect to happen
    • to go to the start of the line
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What is “the home button?”

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they are pretty standard btw HOME gets to the start of the line and end gets to the end of the line try obsidian , vscode , any editor you will find it working . the pre-vim style :joy:

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if you are using 70 or 60% keyboards this is so much easier than using cmd + arrows

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Mac keyboards don’t have this. I don’t see why a Mac app should support a Windows (or DOS) feature.

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yeah ik that macbook keyboards doesn’t have it but i am using 60% keyboard and i use them alot i don’t think it is a problem to support

apple full keyboard has home button normally it is just macbooks

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That’s just wrong. macOS does support the home and end keys. They’re not windows features. On keyboards that don’t have the physical keys, fn + arrow left is home, arrow right end, arrow up page up and arrow down page down

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plus, I have question. Lettera is supposed to be for devs, researchers, and so on, so you need to accommodate all people’s workflows, not force your own workflow for something as simple as that. I thought you guys were being more flexible. I don’t have a problem with something like Bear not having it.

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Fine, but there’s no Home key on Mac.

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Those arrow key shortcuts are standard in most apps that support text on Mac.It’s just the Home button that doesn’t exist.

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are you one of the devs or just someone who are saying his opinion ??? becuz i don’t see a badge

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Don‘t worry! He isn‘t one of the devs.

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CTRL+A should take you the beginning of the current line.

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Sick mindset, because I pointed out that the Home key isn’t a common thing on Macs?

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The pt is i dont see ur problem actually why you are here

  • Someone corrected u earlier when you said mac doesnt support HOME button and it is windows feature
  • The HOME button is available physically in full mac keyboard look at the images at apple keyboard and i gave u the link to see it
  • It is more easy for people with mechanical keyboard to use instead of using arrow keys

You will not have problem if they support it. I have problem if they not

So why are u arguing here??? I don’t get it move on

We are sorry that you dont have a HOME key on your keyboard but apps are built for people to use it not for “macbooks”

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Granted, this it’s on the full-sized Mac keyboard, which a minority of people use. Laptops and smaller keyboards are the vast majority of Macs. I apologize for not having a WIDE keyboard for the past 20 years. My iMac has a small keyboard as well; it’s the default, the keyboard with the number pad costs an additional $80.

Regarding mechanical keyboards, ie third-party keyboards, that’s clearly out of bounds.

Anyway, chill out and be polite.. Pressing Command-up-arrow isn’t that painful, is it?

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Hello folks! Let’s keep this friendly and respectful.

Here’s how Home/End work on native macOS apps, which differs from Windows:

Home/End don’t move to the start/end of the current line in text editors: they move to the start/end of the document. That’s the default behavior of native macOS apps, and it’s what Lettera follows.

⌘← and ⌘→ move to the start/end of the line on macOS (or ^a/^e if you like it better).

We get that people coming from other platforms may find this confusing, but Lettera aims for a fully native macOS experience, and changing standard behaviors runs against that. If there’s enough demand, we could consider adding a setting to change Home/End behavior, but it’s low on the priority list for now.

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I just realized after my last post that the OP is confused, because Mac behavior is different from what they expect. It seems logical that if Mac extended keyboards have a Home key, then that key’s action is part of macOS, and not something that apps would change by default.

Anyway, there are keyboard shortcuts as you say. And if the OP is using a third-party keyboard, it might come with an app allowing them to change what some of the keys do.

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Thanks for the clarification! A lot of mac apps have different behavior for the home key which gets confusing.

Edited to add you can use something like keyboard maestro get the home/end keys to mimic ⌘← and ⌘→