This is another late answer in this thread...
No Delete-key on a Powerbook? If you use Mac OS X and stays out of M$
application, use the emacs key equivalent for delete (ctrl-d). One thing
that I love about Mac OS X is that Apple has implemented the common emacs
shortcuts. Very nice.
/johan
Den 05-12-27 13.11, skrev "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Yes, but not on a Powerbook or iBook Bernard. My response might be
> that, despite this handicap, millions of Mac users carry on regardless.
>
> I have just given my 12-year old niece a hard time for getting a
> festering Windoze laptop for Christmas (an unidentified make), but
> her Father had received it from his employer and had merely passed it
> on.
>
> My crusade continues ... ;-)
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
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>
> On 27 Dec 2005, at 09:58, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
>
>>>> - For a sloppy typist like me, the PC setup of both erase left
>>>> (backspace key) and erase right (delete key) is superior to the Mac
>>>> single key set up of erase left (delete key) only.
>>>
>>> Erase right on a Mac is Fn + Delete
>>>
>> There IS an "erase right" key on desktop Macs keyboards: look for
>> the "Suppr" key on the keyboard (at least this is the name it has
>> on French keyboards).
>>
>> Bernard
>
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