On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
And my personal favourite is the escape key, which is "Esc," but also has a symbol (a circle with an arrow pointing out). This symbol is not present on my keyboard, but I found it (and only it) in one of the (older) programs, and its also shown in the Force Quit menu item. Took me 10 minutes to figure out which key that might be.
On my recent Apple keyboards I have:
control, option (with a tiny "alt" in the upper left corner), what Apple calls the "Command" key that has an Open-Apple in the lower left corner and the "cloverleaf" in the lower right corner, space bar, "Command", option, control
The "alt" was added to the option key so that people used to pc machines would know what the key did
The escape key just has "esc" on it. I suspect that the escape key you have is due to some EU decree for the multiple language situation.
Marcin means that the "symbols" he/she describes are used in the menus such as in Apple->Force Quit. The esc key in Force Quit is depicted with a symbol: a circle with an arrow pointing out. When I first started using OS X I didn't know what the heck that symbol was.
In the Finder go to the Help menu and type in 'Symbols for special keys' and go to that help document to see all the symbols for keys.
Turtle-Bear
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