Yeh! thanks a bunch! you just made my day.
Cheers,
On 16-Mar-08, at 3:09 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi,
I'll fill in a couple of things here in the message below from Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Claude Provost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: potential switcher seeking personal take on the Mac
...
To me, the biggest thing for now is to get used to the way the cursor
works. For instance, I don't know how to delete characters the way we
do it in windows. IN WINDOWS, WHEN YOU PRESS THE DELETE KEY, IT
DELETES THE CHARACTER IN FRONT OF THE CURSOR. I HAVE NOT FOUND HOW TO
DO THIS YET ON THE MAC AND, TO BE CANDID, A 25 YEARS HABIT IS QUITE
HARD TO BREAK. I'M HOPING SOMEONE WILL TELL ME HOW I CAN DO THIS
BECAUSE, THE SOLE USE OF THE BACKSPACE KEY to delete characters behind
the cursor IS DRIVING ME A LITTLE coucou BANANA WILD. AND BECAUSE OF
THAT, I'M DEFINITELY NOT READY TO SWITCH MY WORD PROCESSING ACTIVITIES
ACROSS THE FENCE FOR NOW.
dp: fn with backspace will forward delete.
ONE THING YOU PROBABLY WANT TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT, FOR $79.00, you
can purchase Fusion from VMWare. This will allow you to run a Windows
session from the Mac, hence, potentially providing you with a
transitional ground that might be quite acceptable. I've not tried
this yet but I certainly intend to.
dp: be aware though that you can also use bootcamp which comes with
the os
and provides the full windows experience and that with fusion, you
may have
issues with software because it is not a 100% compatible environment
