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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

163 points · 89 comments · zdw

  1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
    No amount of drooling over Apple keyboards will make me forget that Apple's designers didn't add keys for basic functions such as Copy and Paste, Undo and Redo.
    1. spijdar · · focus · HN ↗
      Having seen laptops with dedicated copy&#x2F;paste&#x2F;undo&#x2F;redo keys, I think Apple can be forgiven for not going down the function key rabbit hole: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pomelo.shockfox.net&#x2F;pub&#x2F;img&#x2F;powerlite.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pomelo.shockfox.net&#x2F;pub&#x2F;img&#x2F;powerlite.jpg

      (Yes, they could have just replaced the &quot;regular&quot; function keys with copy&#x2F;paste keys, but I feel like that would have gone over about as well as the various times they&#x27;ve, uh, tried to replace the function keys)

      1. amelius · · focus · HN ↗
        The least they could have done was print &quot;Copy&quot;, &quot;Paste&quot;, etc. on the keys that we now use for those tasks.
      2. eviks · · focus · HN ↗
        They can&#x27;t, those keys are too far away for such common operations. And Fn keys are just as bad, so replacing with them would also have been a mistake
      3. cpach · · focus · HN ↗
        Looks like we hugged that poor server to death :-&#x2F;
        1. spijdar · · focus · HN ↗
          It should be back up now! And being managed by the service manager now instead of running in a shell, so it should stay up.

          The one and only web host [2] written in Nim [0], running on Sprite [1] ;-)

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