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Matt McLeod wrote:
| It gets better. Under some circumstances -- the precise details elude
| me, as I haven't used Windows as a primary environment for some time
| now -- you merely have to hold the shift key down for a few seconds to
| trigger the po
Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Oh, so you might think! Not so much, if you were to (for example) play
> some sort of computer game that uses the shift or control key to perform
> some sort of action.
>
> In that case, if you were to hit it five times in quick succession, you
> would be treated to a wond
Smylers writes:
> Michael G Schwern writes:
>
>> rather than use the Windows key as an additional modifier key, like
>> the Apple/Command key, freeing up Control, they made it A) the most
>> obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock and B) imbued it with a
>> set of randomly assigned chords.
>
>
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:37:58AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
> Obligatory software hate: Instead of mucking around with keystroke
> timing (e.g. ignoring very quick presses of Caps Lock on new
> keyboards) ...
Oh, that's deliberate? I thought it was a convenient hardware fault in
my new MB
On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
the most obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock
The Caps Lock problem was actually solved decades ago by NeXT. On
NeXT's keyboards there was no dedicated Caps Lock key, and Caps Lock
mode was enabled by holding down Command and tap
Michael G Schwern writes:
> rather than use the Windows key as an additional modifier key, like
> the Apple/Command key, freeing up Control, they made it A) the most
> obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock and B) imbued it with a
> set of randomly assigned chords.
Moreover, 'normal' modifie
Philip Newton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 00:31, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> One would have thought, what with Microsoft inventing a new PC keyboard
>> layout for Windows 95 that included Windows and Menu keys, that it might use
>> *those* for accelerators. But no... the key's sole purpose appears
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 00:31, Peter Corlett wrote:
> One would have thought, what with Microsoft inventing a new PC keyboard
> layout for Windows 95 that included Windows and Menu keys, that it might use
> *those* for accelerators. But no... the key's sole purpose appears to be to
> randomly cause
On 8 Jan 2009, at 16:41, Abigail wrote:
[...]
It used to be that ^W closed the current window, if the focus wasn't
on a text input field or if the URL bar had the focus. In such a case,
^W would erase the word before the cursor. Just like 'readline'.
This is no longer the case. ^W always kills a
