Enable Ctrl (or Alt) + arrow keys to mimic 'home' and 'end' functionality

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Published on 2012-04-14T03:20:43Z Indexed on 2012/04/14 5:32 UTC
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I am a long time Mac user and I'm now using a Ubuntu machine for development, and while I'm more or less used to a lot of the keyboard shortcuts, one thing I can't get used to is using the 'Home' and 'End' keys to move around lines of text. On a Mac you use "Command + right arrow" to go to the end of a line and "Command + left arrow" to go to the beginning.

Is there a way to enable this kind of functionality in Linux?

I'm not sure if this would be considered remapping, keyboard shortcuts, or what...

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