On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Yoz Grahame wrote:
Pressing [Macbook eject key] ejects whatever's in the CD/DVD drive, which happens occasionally during normal typing due to how much of the Delete key's edge it shares.
...which is probably one of the recent system updates -- either 10.4.8 or 10.4.9, I forget which -- added a couple-second delay between pressing the key and actually ejecting the disc, making this much harder to do by accident.
[...] Which I'm most bitter about since it's the perfect place for a forward-delete key.
On the other hand, [fn]+[delete] *does* behave as a forward-delete. Yes, it's a keychord rather than a keypress, but at least it's there.
(Usually though, I can get away with the fact that [ctrl]+[d] usually does the forward-delete, as Cocoa apps get Emacs keybindings from readline.)
-- Chris Devers
