Way back in 2013 Magnar Sveen published a nice bit of Elisp for moving to the beginning and end of a dired buffer. By beginning and end, he meant the logical beginning and end: the first and last line of file or directory listings. I immediately stole that and modified it to do the same thing for ibuffer buffers.
Now Fuco has published a set of macros that implements the same thing for a wide variety of other special buffers. The macros are actually nicer because the first time you press Meta+< or Meta+>, you will move to the logical beginning or end of the buffer. If you press it again, you will move to the physical beginning or end so you get the best of both worlds.
Fuco gives several examples of using the macros for various types of buffers so even if you don’t know much Elisp, you can easily implement the behavior for most buffer types that you’re apt to care about.
Oddly, looking at my original post on ripping off Sveen’s code for ibuffer buffers from 2014, I see that Fuco made a comment pointing to these macros. Now he’s posted about them and given examples for anyone who’s interested to use. If you use dired, ibuffer, occur, vc-dir, agenda, or other special buffers a lot, you may be interested in his solution. Be sure to give his post a read.
UPDATE : Fixed the links.