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Re: OT: How widely used is option-backspace?



At 2:50 PM -0800 1/27/2005, Mark Wagner wrote:
Speaking of which,
what's the point of having both an "enter" key and a "return" key?

As others have pointed out, it allows you to type return into a multi-line text field. I first learned to use this with MPW and use it with MacSQL to execute a query (which can certainly be multi-line or might have a return inside a quoted string). Other applications that differentiate return/enter (and I that can think of off the top of my head) include FileMaker, Excel (in dialogs), Palm Desktop, and Photoshop.



At 6:08 PM -0500 1/27/2005, Laurence Harris wrote:
There are other ways, but none of them is as easy as the Eject button, and
none of them will work while the computer is starting up.

Holding the mouse/trackpad button down at boot will eject the disc.

I have my f-keys re-mapped to be function keys first (and require fn for volume/brightness/eject) so I wonder if that would still work at boot for me. I'll try to remember to test it next time I reboot.

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