On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote:
Do you use your number pad?
Yes, but I get along with out it... so on a laptop I may appreciate full
size keys more than narrower keys + number pad. I also prefer the keyboard
be centered with the screen, which usually isn't
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:35 -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
While looking at laptops and stand-alone keyboards recently, I see there
are several trends happening. I'd be curious to know what people think
of these features.
Number pads seem to be showing up on more laptops, even those with 15
On 1/18/2011 3:35 PM, Tom Metro wrote
F-keys on laptops have had a second function to control the hardware,
such as changing the display brightness, when used with an Fn modifier
key. Newer HP laptops reverse the logic of the Fn modifier key, such
that you have to press the modifier to get the
Ethan Schwartz wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
Newer HP laptops reverse the logic of the Fn modifier key, such
that you have to press the modifier to get the traditional F1-F12
function.
Those same HP's also have an option in their BIOS that lets you decide
whether to the Fn modifier default to on
On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
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Bill Horne wrote:
Cntl-X|C|V is universal AFAIK...
I believe the Shift-Delete/Ctrl-Insert/Shift-Insert shortcuts for
cut/copy/paste were introduced to Windows back in the 2.0/3.0 era, and
considered part of IBM Common User Access (CUA)[1]
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:24:03PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
Thanks. I played with this, and with colortail. I didn't really like
either solution in the end. [e]grep only allows one color and one
pattern, and colortail doesn't actually work as a filter (the author
has a patch for that).
On 01/19/2011 12:21 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:24:03PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
Thanks. I played with this, and with colortail. I didn't really like
either solution in the end. [e]grep only allows one color and one
pattern, and colortail doesn't actually work as a
