Hi Kali,
You wrote:
> They get to the URL field with the pointer and hit backspace,
>--- <snip> ---Then they hold down the backspace key,
> waiting for the URL feild to be erased. This fills up the
> keyboard buffer with backspaces. Now if the history is a pretty big file
> it can take ages to scroll on a slow machine, and doing that for ( what is
> it 128 times) makes it preferable to hit the reset button
--- <snip ---
Yes, yes, yes !!!!
I too have been caught in this mistake. That's when I go get a new
cup of coffee, while the keyboard buffer clears itself.
Eric
P.S. I find I make this mistake most often when I am
navigating without mouse. Maybe keyboard buffer
could be cleared automatically to avoid this trap.
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