Re: [OT] keyboard shortcuts (was Re: Control Scripteditor)
Re: [OT] keyboard shortcuts (was Re: Control Scripteditor)
- Subject: Re: [OT] keyboard shortcuts (was Re: Control Scripteditor)
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:06:17 -0700
On 8/1/2004 22:56, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
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So I'm curious: was Esc. always a synonym for Cmd-.? (I used Macs since
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System 7, so that's where 'my personal always' starts ;)) Or has it started
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more recently, perhaps related to the Switch campaign, to make Windows and
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unix users a bit more at home?
Command-. goes back to day 1, and the original Macintosh keyboard which did
not have an Esc(ape) key. (Just went into the attic to verify that claim.)
The keyboard also didn't have a Control key, so Escape couldn't be
fabricated using control-].
Command-. was a problem to support on many non-English keyboards early on,
since . wasn't the same place on some of them.
Thanks again, Steve J, for "helping" the early Mac users by truncating their
keyboards, debuttoning their mice, etc. (And do get well soon and recover
fully!)
--John
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