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About that DELETE key
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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 368503" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>In the typewriter days, the <strong>Backspace</strong> key did exactly what it sounds like: it went <em>back</em> a <em>space</em>. In other words, what the left-arrow key does today.</p><p></p><p>When Apple built its first keyboard, it realized that this didn't accurately reflect what the key did. So they called it <strong>delete</strong>.</p><p></p><p>IBM had no such sense about four years later. They kept the same name as on they're typewriters. But they did add a <strong>"del"</strong> key, that deleted the key forward of the insertion point.</p><p></p><p>So Apple's keyboards, as they have for thirty years, have a delete key, and, on the full-size keyboards a <strong>forward delete</strong> key , marked with a symbol that looks something like <strong>[X></strong>. Laptops duplicate this with fn+delete.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 368503, member: 4134"] In the typewriter days, the [b]Backspace[/b] key did exactly what it sounds like: it went [i]back[/i] a [i]space[/i]. In other words, what the left-arrow key does today. When Apple built its first keyboard, it realized that this didn't accurately reflect what the key did. So they called it [b]delete[/b]. IBM had no such sense about four years later. They kept the same name as on they're typewriters. But they did add a [b]"del"[/b] key, that deleted the key forward of the insertion point. So Apple's keyboards, as they have for thirty years, have a delete key, and, on the full-size keyboards a [b]forward delete[/b] key , marked with a symbol that looks something like [b][X>[/b]. Laptops duplicate this with fn+delete. [/QUOTE]
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