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Mac Terminal Page Down Home End Not Working | How to Fix Them
August 30, 2011 Updated February 19, 2017 1 min read A
By default the Mac Terminal Shortcuts: Page Down, Page Up, Home and End keys do not work as you would expect them to. There is a very simple fix for this explained below:
- Open up the terminal
- Go to Preferences
- Go to the Settings Tab
- Go to the Keyboard Section
- Select the end key
- Click the Edit button
- Choose 'send string to shell' from the Action drop down menu
- Paste in this value: \033[4~
Here are the values for the commonly used shortcuts in the Mac terminal:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Home | \033[1~ |
| End | \033[4~ |
| Page Up | \033[5~ |
| Page Down | \033[6~ |