Hello! Lee, you have pointed out the most obvious thing that was right
in front of me! My keyboard has a key over in the help/home/page up/page
down/end section that must be for "forward delete." Now I am once again
productive....Greg On 1/29/06 3:27 PM, "Lee Larson" <leelarson at mac.com> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Greg Schoettmer wrote: > >> I'm looking for a capability on the Mac that I had on my PC >> (Yes, I >> know, blasphemy!). In a text document on a Mac, I can delete a >> character by >> hitting the delete key (on a PC it's the "backspace" key). That >> will "back >> delete" a character. What I want to do is delete the next character or >> "forward delete" (On a PC that is the "Delete" button). > > What kind of keyboard do you have? Most recent Apple keyboards have a > forward delete key in the home-end block. On recent laptops, the > function key held down along with the delete key will forward delete. > > There are plenty of programs out there that will let you remap your > keyboard. I use one on my laptop called uControl [1] to exchange the > caps lock and control keys because I got tired of accidentally > getting into CAPS MODE AND THEN HAVING TO TURN IT off. I've also used > Ukelele[4] for this. There are also programs that'll give you the > same keyboard layout as a Windows machine. Check Versiontracker[2] > for them. > > You can buy a program like QuickKeys[3] that'll let you set up a key > to do pretty much anything you want, but it's overkill for this > little problem. > > [1] <http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/> > [2] <http://www.versiontracker.com> > [3] <http://www.startly.com/products/qkx.html> > [4] <http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=94> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
