[Qt-creator] Editor bug – cursor keeps jumping to the end

[Jason H]

1. I'm glad I can re-map it.
2. But why don't they do what everything (Chrome, Komodo, Word) else does?*

* Since it's been brought up, TextEdit, Safari is doing the BOD, EOD. It seems that only Apple apps use the document navigation?


> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 4:33 AM
> From: "Eike Ziller" <Eike.Ziller at qt.io>
> To: "Joerg Bornemann" <Joerg.Bornemann at qt.io>
> Cc: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>, "qt-creator at qt-project.org" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Editor bug – cursor keeps jumping to the end
>
> 
> > On Jun 22, 2017, at 10:20, Joerg Bornemann <Joerg.Bornemann at qt.io> wrote:
> > 
> > On 20/06/2017 09:13, Eike Ziller wrote:
> > 
> >>> On 19. Jun 2017, at 18:26, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I thought it was just me, but I'm seeing this too. using the cmd-arrow keys works as expected, it's just the home/end keys for me.
> > [...]
> >> In what way do the home/end keys do not work for you?
> > 
> > I believe Jason does not expect that Home/End jumps to beginning/end of the document. That's unexpected and annoying for everyone coming from a different platform but the correct behavior for macOS.
> 
> If that is the case, nowadays you can set different shortcuts for these in Qt Creator in Environment > Keyboard, TextEditor / GotoLineStart and GotoLineEnd.
> 
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