[TazeTSchnitzel]

>That's because Home and End keys on the Mac, like in the original UNIX, mean the beginning and the end of the document not the beginning and end of a line which is a Windows thing

Is it? I'm used to them going to the beginning and the end of lines on Linux.

[vvhn]

The very next line you quoted tells you why that is the case on Linux now. if you used Linux in the late 90's, you will remember that a lot of the popular window managers/desktop environments aimed to make your transition from Windows 95 easier and the current Linux behaviour is a result of that.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

I'm not talking about GUIs. I mean in text editors and at the Terminal.

[freehunter]

>and since most early Linux desktop environment's aimed to duplicate Windows, is also the default Linux behaviour now.