On 1/27/05 5:50 PM, Mark Wagner didst favor us with:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:50:09 -0500, David Duncan <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2005, at 06:11 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>>
>>> If it drives you up the wall, don't hold down the Shift key when you
>>> do it.
>>> ;-) It may be implemented as a feature for PowerBook users, who don't
>>> have
>>> a forward delete key. I have CW set up to forward delete on
>>> Shift-delete for
>>> that very reason.
>>
>> Ah, but us Powerbook users do have a forward delete -- Fn-Delete. At
>> least, this is the case on more recent versions of Mac OS X (I think
>> 10.2+).
>
> But for those of us programmers who make heavy use of forward delete,
> the two-handed stretch to hit fn-delete is a pain. It would be so
> much handier to re-map one of the existing, useless keys such as "caps
> lock", "enter", or "eject" to be forward delete.
I use all of these.
> (Speaking of which,
> what's the point of having both an "enter" key and a "return" key?
Some applications treat them differently. I use the Enter key much more on
my external keyboard often because it's closer to the mouse. Not so much on
my PowerBook keyboard, though.
> And is the "eject" key anything more than a legacy from the
> tray-loading CD drives?)
It still ejects optical disks. I use it fairly often. It's especially useful
when you need to get a disk to eject before the computer tries to boot from
it.
Larry
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