Control Alt Delete Air Full Size Keyboard

The MacBook adds to that challenge because it doesnt have some of the keys that Ive become used to having on a full size keyboard.

It performs the same function as a Backspace key on Windows though - so far so good.

For the first month or so I accepted that I had to move past a letter and back over it with Delete in order to remove it.

I like the fact that my keyboard has keys that have a little space between them - cutting down the key count by not including Del, Page up, Page Down, etc.

What I just found out though was that I can Delete forward on a MacBook keyboard by holding down the fn (Function) key and hitting Delete.

Control Alt Delete Air Full Keyboard MacBook

So where are the other missing keys Full Keyboard MacBook Keyboard Delete (Forward) fn-Delete Home fn-Left Arrow End fn-Right Arrow Page Up fn-Up Arrow Page Down fn-Down Arrow Happy typing.

If you hold alt or option and press most other keys youll get a load of other symbols.

Hey. this is unrelated but something you may want to look into.

I had some problems with that and Blogger before and never bothered to fix it.

This site has a dashboard widget, character pal that has tons of keyboard short cuts.

For some reason, delete on a Mac has always been make the character behind my cursor go away, and forward delete removes the character ahead of the cursor.

If you go back to pre computer times, the true backspace key on typewriters never erased anything.

Instead the function was there to move back one to then be able to type an accent character over the letter you just typed.

This seems to have been examined by the Apple designers, hence they used delete to indicate text would be going away, instead of confusing the backspace key as doing something different then the typewriter key did.

Another interesting split in decisions is the whole ctrl, alt, and (windowsapple) key split.

Windows chose to use Ctrl for a lot of GUI shortcuts, even though in the terminal days, Ctrl already was used for a lot of different shortcuts.

Ctrl-C for example was never copy at a terminal, it was break execution.

Apple used a 3rd modifier key to avoid trampling on terminal commands, while Microsoft only added a third modifier key in Windows 95.

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Because of its late entrance into the GUI world, its never done much beyond trivial tasks, where as the entire Mac OS GUI is build around Apple-blah shortcuts.

Its a shame how fragmented this got, as unification at this point is nearly difficult without one side redefining a lot of things and causing a lot of programs to break.

Heres a clickable link that goes direct: How Apple Keyboards Lost a Logo Thanks Tom.

Control Alt Delete For Mac Air