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MacBook Pro Keyboard
#13733 01/14/11 08:06 PM
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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.

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MG2009 #13757 01/15/11 03:22 PM
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I thought maybe the FN button would do the trick but, alas, it is not so.

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


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Re: MacBook Pro Keyboard
dianne #13763 01/15/11 11:54 PM
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. . . . 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!)

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MG2009 #13770 01/16/11 06:11 PM
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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.

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Hal Itosis #13771 01/16/11 06:40 PM
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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)?

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MG2009 #13772 01/16/11 08:20 PM
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jchuzi #13775 01/16/11 11:46 PM
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Thanks a heap. cool

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jchuzi #13776 01/17/11 03:38 AM
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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.

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Like your new avatar, Hal.


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