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The most annoying thing with running windows in a Parallels virtual machine, is that the default key mappings for navigating text is different between windows and OS X:

Windows:

• Go to end of line = End
• Go to start of line = Home
• Go to next word = control-right arrow
• Go to previous word = control-left arrow

OS X:

• Go to end of line = command-right arrow
• Go to start of line = comand-left arrow
• Go to next word = option(alt)-right arrow
• Go to previous word = option(alt)-left arrow

Parallels by default remaps the text copy, cut & paste from command-c to control-c, command-v to control-v etc. Why oh Why didn’t it do this for text navigation I bemoaned over and over, frustratingly trying to remember which OS I was using and switching to the right one.

Then, today, I had a moment of clarity. It was so obvious. I felt stupid for not looking for it before. Behold the screen shot below and now I am calm and relaxed with a unified text navigation scheme.