[R-SIG-Mac] left-arrow doesn't unselect and move left (was ?> as a valid help request)

[Berend Hasselman]

On 25-05-2011, at 19:03, Timothy Bates wrote:

> On 25 May 2011, at 5:50 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>>> The left arrow just does nothing when a selection has been made (whereas the right arrow undoes the selection, leaving the cursor to its right)
>> Command-left arrow
>> Ctrl-A
>> …
> 
> 
> Again, thanks for the help: I think it is a bug that left-arrow does not deselect the selection and leave the cursor immediately to the left of the old selection. having hte left-arrow move left is completely standard on mac applications., where as control-A is Unix only.
> 
> thanks again for the replies,
> t
> 
>> Home will move the cursor to the start of a line
>> End  will move the cursor to the end of a line
> PS: not keys I have unfortunately :-(

If this is because you have an Apple laptop,  Fn left-arrow and Fn right-arrow are Home and End respectively.

Berend