Re: Option key or Alternate key
Re: Option key or Alternate key
- Subject: Re: Option key or Alternate key
- From: Matt Judy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:00:16 -0800
Norbert Heger wrote:
> What's the correct name of the Alternate/Option key? The keycap is
labeled
> "alt", but AFAIK Mac users usually call it the "Option key".
It all depends on who you ask ;) NeXT users will always say "the Alt
key" (since NeXT keyboards had an Alt key, and OpenStep PC's as well),
and Mac users will always say "the Option key".
End users will know it as the "option" key, and your docs should follow
suit. But in the developer community, it will likely be more widely
known as the "alt" key, especially with things like NSAlternateKeyMask
floating around.
Since I'm a NeXT user, and because "alt" is one less syllable than
"option", (and because Apple is NeXT now ;) I tend to call it the alt key.
Now, if only I could get the command key back below the space bar like
the NeXT ADB keyboard...
--Matt
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