I recently got a MBP and noticed there is the DELETE button (which is expected to be on the keyboard).

However, I see that there is no BACKSPACE button (which can also be handy). Is there a way to toggle/shift the DELETE button to also function as a BACKSPACE button? (I thought maybe the FN button would do the trick but, alas, it is not so.)

Thanks.


JUST FOUND A SOLUTION. The following application allows for keyboard shortcuts of all sorts . . . including the one I discussed:

http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

P.S. I use SHIFT + DELETE for the BACKSPACE/FORWARD DELETE function.

MG,

Holding down fn while tapping the delete key should allow you to forward delete.

. . . . and so it DOES!!!


(Honestly, FN was not doing it before which is why I went on a search for an application that would allow me to do so . . . OR I had lost my "last marble" . . . which IS quite possible!)

Moreover, control-k will "kill" (cut) all text from the right of the cursor, up to the end of the current paragraph. Subsequently, control-y will "yank" (paste) that particular buffer to the (new) cursor location. Both control-k and control-y work independently of ⌘X (and ⌘C) and ⌘V.

There is such a pile of keyboard shortcuts that I tend to ignore most of them - lazy, I guess. It sure is nice, though, to have the really useful ones pointed out to me.

Thanks for the tip!!!

P.S. Is there a simplified, COMPLETE list of all shortcuts available (besides the one provided under Keyboard in SYSTEM PREFERENCES)?

Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

Thanks a heap.

Odd... that page mentions control-k but not control-y (which gives control-k more utility). Command-V doesn't paste back what control-k cuts.

--{ posted from my iPad }--

Like your new avatar, Hal.