Comments on: No real delete key: Switching to Mac Annoyance #2 http://www.eightdotthree.net/2007/02/no-real-delete-key-mac-annoyance-2/ eightdotthree.net is maintained for me to share, learn and experiment. Through monthly posting I hope to find my writing voice, develop as a designer and maybe provide something interesting. Hosting provided by Dreamhost. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:26:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ryan http://www.eightdotthree.net/2007/02/no-real-delete-key-mac-annoyance-2/#comment-11801 Ryan Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:48:52 +0000 http://www.eightdotthree.net/2007/02/no-real-delete-key-mac-annoyance-2/#comment-11801 <p>Editing code without a delete key is a pain, function delete works fine now that I am used to it, but its still no replacement for a Windows style delete key.</p> Editing code without a delete key is a pain, function delete works fine now that I am used to it, but its still no replacement for a Windows style delete key.

]]> By: SP http://www.eightdotthree.net/2007/02/no-real-delete-key-mac-annoyance-2/#comment-11797 SP Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:27:49 +0000 http://www.eightdotthree.net/2007/02/no-real-delete-key-mac-annoyance-2/#comment-11797 <p>Every Mac keyboard I have ever used, since the Apple IIc I bought in 1984, has had a delete key that deleted backwards. Microsoft calls it backspace. Apple calls it delete. It's really just a convention thing, not a thing that Apple does "wrong." You might as well complain about the missing "alt" key.</p> <p>When I first started using PCs at work, I considered the forward delete key an extra bonus, but since I was so used to putting the cursor at the end of the thing I wanted to delete, I found that it was rarely useful. It's all just what you're accustomed to.</p> <p>On the extended keyboards you get with the iMacs and towers, there's a forward delete key. On the laptops, fn+delete has always worked for me. Use it enough, and you don't even think about it.</p> Every Mac keyboard I have ever used, since the Apple IIc I bought in 1984, has had a delete key that deleted backwards. Microsoft calls it backspace. Apple calls it delete. It’s really just a convention thing, not a thing that Apple does “wrong.” You might as well complain about the missing “alt” key.

When I first started using PCs at work, I considered the forward delete key an extra bonus, but since I was so used to putting the cursor at the end of the thing I wanted to delete, I found that it was rarely useful. It’s all just what you’re accustomed to.

On the extended keyboards you get with the iMacs and towers, there’s a forward delete key. On the laptops, fn+delete has always worked for me. Use it enough, and you don’t even think about it.

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