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Drive-By Poll: Keyboards and characters
17 years ago
Have any of you ever used the backslash for anything other than directory referencing in Windows (C:\folder\thisisarealfile.not)? If so, what was it for?
Have you ever used the grave character (`)? If so, what for?
Do you know how to access the special characters not featured on your key caps?
If so, what non-keyboard characters do you use most frequently? And if not, which ones do you most often wish you could use?
For those with volume control buttons on your keyboard: Do you use them?
Have you ever had someone, maybe an older person you were teaching to use a computer, comment that referring to the right-delete as Delete and the left-delete as Backspace was confusing?
And finally: What is your OS?
Have you ever used the grave character (`)? If so, what for?
Do you know how to access the special characters not featured on your key caps?
If so, what non-keyboard characters do you use most frequently? And if not, which ones do you most often wish you could use?
For those with volume control buttons on your keyboard: Do you use them?
Have you ever had someone, maybe an older person you were teaching to use a computer, comment that referring to the right-delete as Delete and the left-delete as Backspace was confusing?
And finally: What is your OS?
Alt+XXXX. The only one I ever used is the © (Alt+0169) symbol from back in my days on Side7, where putting an actual copyright symbol in your image description was recommended.
My headphones have a volume control knob on them, so I don't need the ones on my keyboard.
And I'm running Windows XP SP3.
Programming as mentioned.
Have you ever used the grave character (`)? If so, what for?
Only for accessing consoles in games.
Do you know how to access the special characters not featured on your key caps?
Yes but it's annoying as hell on a laptop
If so, what non-keyboard characters do you use most frequently? And if not, which ones do you most often wish you could use?
It's been awhile but alt-138 or something near that is e' or `e and alt-0237 is the other. I know them because of Pokemon and I learned the wrong one by accident. alt-248 is the degree sign and i do use that. Again though with a laptop with no numpad I never bother to now.
For those with volume control buttons on your keyboard: Do you use them?
Don't have them. I do have internet/media player/play/stop/previous track/next track buttons that I don't touch.
Have you ever had someone, maybe an older person you were teaching to use a computer, comment that referring to the right-delete as Delete and the left-delete as Backspace was confusing?
No
And finally: What is your OS? Vista Basic 32-Bit
> If so, what was it for?
as said for programming, for escape sequences and regex in the shell and search functions, and sometimes for simple ascii art (e.g. stick figures)
Have you ever used the grave character (`)? If so, what for?
For outputbuffering in bash, but only when I was extending scripts from other people, and only if they were already using them.
Do you know how to access the special characters not featured on your key caps?
Generally, yes.
If so, what non-keyboard characters do you use most frequently?
Shift+´ , a = à
Shift+´ , u = ù
For those with volume control buttons on your keyboard: Do you use them?
Yes, unless they can't be mapped (happens in some wms...)
Have you ever had someone, maybe an older person you were teaching to use a computer,
comment that referring to the right-delete as Delete and the left-delete as Backspace was confusing?
No, since they are differently named in Germany.
And finally: What is your OS?
Kubuntu 8.04.1 (Linux 2.6.24-21-generic)
-- No
-- I use a US qwerty keyboard. Non-keyboard characters used: Accented vowels in French & Italian words. The characters that mark paragraphs and sections of text. Greek letters used as symbols. The characters for the Euro and British pound. The circle-c for copyright.
-- No
-- No. I grew up using alt- and control- key combinations for shortcuts. We didn't have these fancy keyboards back in the day, when we rode dinosaurs to school.
-- WinXP on the office and home desktop, Mac on my wife's laptop, the pre-loaded Linux on my Asus EeePC on my "travel computer." I'm studying Linux and would like to switch to Ubuntu on the home desktop.
No.
Yes.
Foreign letters with accents.
Don't have 'em.
No.
Win XP SP 2.
I use Option+E to add accents to certain letters and option+N for an N with a tilde. Can't be buggered to copy-paste from Windows' Character Map or memorize the alt codes, at least while my main computer's a Mac.
I use the volume control buttons on my laptop all the time! On my mom's laptop, though, hers requires the Fn key to be pressed at the same time. Hassle.
Mac OSX 10.3.9 old-school