OS X Terminal shortcut: Jump to beginning/end of line

Question

I know that I can jump to the beginning and end of a line inside the OS X terminal with Ctrl + A and Ctrl + E . But I'm so used to jumping with Cmd + Right arrow and Cmd + Left arrow from my editor, that I would love to use these shortcuts for the terminal too.

I haven't found a solution with Google, so maybe here someone can help.

Update

As in the comments, I tried the solution from How to move the cursor word by word in the OS X Terminal

Unfortunately, the Terminal settings seems to not include Cmd as a Modifier Key, as you can see here:

Answer 1

fn + shift + leftArrow = goto beginning of line
fn + shift + rightArrow = goto end of line

these work for me

Answer 2

在最新的 Mac OS 中您可以使用shift + home或shift + end

Answer 3

I use a handy app called Karabiner to do this, and many other things. It's free and open source.

It's a keyboard remapper, with a lot of handy presets for many common remaps that people may want to do.

As you can see from the screenshot, this remap is included as a preset in Karabiner.

Hope this helps. Happy remapping!

Answer 4

As setup in the terminal using vi :

The Home button on a Macbook Pro keyboard: Fn + Left Arrow .

The End button on a Macbook Pro keyboard: Fn + Right Arrow .

Answer 5

Here I found a tweak for this, without any third party tool . This will make the following shortcut to work:

 fn + right: to go to the end of the line.
 fn + left: to go to the beginning of the line.

• Open terminal preferences.( cmd + , ).
• Go to your selected theme and then to the keyboard tab.
  

• And add a new entry as following.

• That's all. Now close and check.

  Hope it helps.

EDIT: Refer to the comment by @Maurice Gilden below for more insights.

Answer 6

Control + A转到开头， Control + E转到结尾

Answer 7

For iterm2:

Go to Profiles / Open Profiles / Keys

Set Cmd + left_arrow_key to Send Hex Code 001

Set Cmd + right_arrow_key to Send Hex Code 005

This allows you to use Cmd + arrow_keys to move from beginning to end of the line.

Answer 8

I am not sure if this will work for you (I still use OS 10.8 ), but these work for my terminal:

home = move cursor to the start of the line
shift+end = move cursor to the end of the line

alt+leftArrow = move one "word" to the left
alt+rightArrow = move one "word" to the right

Hope this helps!

Answer 9

For latest mac os, Below shortcuts works for me.

Jump to beginning of the line == shift + fn + RightArrow

Jump to ending of the line == shift + fn + LeftArrow

Answer 10

fn + leftArraw or fn + rightArrow为我工作！

Answer 11

You could download Better Touch Tools . It's an app that allows you to make custom key-bindings and shortcuts over your entire system or individual apps. Using it, you could make a shortcut in the terminal that emulates ctrl-a/ctrl-e whenever you press cmd-left/cmd-right, respectively. I definitely recommend it! I've been using it for years and I have over 50 shortcuts spread across several different apps.

Answer 12

Text Navigation Shortcuts

• Jump to beginning of a line – Command+Left Arrow
• Jump to end of a line – Command+Right Arrow
• Jump to beginning of current word – Option+Left Arrow
• Jump to end of current word – Option+Right Arrow
• Jump to beginning of all text – Command+Up Arrow
• Jump to end of all text – Command+Down Arrow

Text Selection Shortcuts

• Select text to beginning of a line – Shift+Command+Left Arrow

• Select text to end of a line – Shift+Command+Right Arrow

• Select text to beginning of current word – Shift+Option+Left Arrow

• Select text to end of current word – Shift+Option+Right Arrow

• Select text to beginning of all text – Shift+Command+Up Arrow

• Select text to end of all text – Shift+Command+Down Arrow

Answer 13

in iterm2

fn + leftArraw or fn + rightArrow

this worked for me

Answer 14

This worked for me Option + left-arrow or Option + right-arrow for moving the cursor to the start or end of the line.

Mac Os Version : Catalina

Answer 15

As per the official website of Apple

control + A - Move to the beginning of the line

control + E - move to the end of the line

terminal shortcuts by Apple's official site

Answer 16

i have the same issue on MacOS 12 (Monterey) - want to go to beginning and end of the line with fn + arrow keys. When you are trying to write '\' in that text field, it becomes '\\' (with escape). You need to paste this text (copy from some text editor, o from terminal) \001 (home) and \005 (end) in field.