The key is a key commonly found on
desktop and
laptop
A laptop, laptop computer, or notebook computer is a small, portable personal computer (PC) with a screen and alphanumeric keyboard. Laptops typically have a clam shell form factor with the screen mounted on the inside of the upper li ...
keyboard
Keyboard may refer to:
Text input
* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Mu ...
s. The key has the opposite effect of the
Home key. In some limited-size keyboards where the key is missing the same functionality can be reached via the key combination of or Control + End keys
Its standard symbol as described in
ISO/IEC 9995-7, i.e. , is used on some full-size keyboards instead of a possibly localized text label.
Microsoft Windows
In modern
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
text editing applications, the key is primarily used to move the cursor to the end of the line in which it is positioned. When the text is not editable, it is used to scroll to the end of the document; this can also be done in editable text if the key is pressed along with .
The key can also be used to highlight all the characters after the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with in editable text.
macOS
In most
macOS
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and la ...
applications, the key works differently than on other platforms. When the key is pressed, the window scrolls to the bottom, while the cursor position does not change at all; that is, the key is tied to the window, not the text box being edited. On Apple keyboards that do not have an End key, one can press for the End key functionality described above. To get the same result as the Windows platform (that is, going to the end of the current line of text), press . In most single-line text fields, you can also instead press the down arrow key. An application can be used to change this behaviour.
Linux
In
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, whi ...
, the key has basically the same functionality as it does on Windows. It positions the cursor at the end of a line in editable text, and otherwise scrolls a scrollable document to the end. Also, like Windows, the key can be used to highlight all the characters after the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with in editable text.
Non-GUI applications
In older screen-oriented,
text-based
In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an ear ...
(non-
GUI
The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...
) applications, the user pressed the "End" key to indicate that they had finished entering data on a particular "screen".
See also
*
Home key
References
{{keyboard keys
Computer keys