[muglo] Re: Survey - what do home/end do on your particular Mac

On Jan 23, 2006, at 6:44 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> You're trying to get me all riled up. the "Command key for all you
> newbies". <creaky voice> Well let me tell you sohnney. Back when I was
> young (literally ;-P), it was called the Command key. It was only when
> they invented those ganfangled new ADB keyboards that some silly goose
> had the idea to call it an Apple key[1] and since then, confusion has
> reigned supreme.

Eric, does one really need to try to get you riled up? ;)  Oddly enough 
(or evenly) I have never been confused.  I get confused when I get on a 
Windows system and it doesn't do what I expect it to do.  But I guess 
that happens when you use predominantly one system over another.

Wrt Open-apple I stand (or is that typed?) corrected. It was what it 
was when I started, so it was.  But the original A][e had a built in 
keyboard so I don't think I would have noticed the adb bus (or even 
cared for that matter).

> [1] I suspect the Apple key was added to allow the ADB keyboards to be
> used on both Apples (the original Apples which had _nothing_ in common
> with the Macintoshes... it is quite remarkable that Apple didn't go
> bankrupt supporting two completely different architectures... I guess
> that's why they have no qualms supporting PPC and i86 now ;-) and
> Macs.
>
>> Methinks Eric you have a unique OS X!
>
> I think I've just always been willing to ignore that misbehaviour on
> Apple's part (ignorance is bliss, I guess). Time to get Apple to fix
> the error of their ways ;-).

Is it an error or just another UI choice?  Home to be means go to the 
top, end well means the end of whatever I'm in.  Adding the tag 'line' 
makes it 'home line' and 'end line' which to me means top of document 
and end of document; or as you suggest the home end of the line and the 
end end of the line.

> PS For anyone else out there who expects "proper" behaviour (i.e. home
> goes to start of line/end goes to end of line) from their Home/End
> keys... it's possible to reprogram them. Just ask, or look in the
> Mac-Canada (lowendmac.net) archives for this past week.
>
> Eric.
> _________________________________________________
>

To me my keys/combinations are working 'properly' as is.  Has this been 
a long standing issue with you or did you just notice it?

Martin

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