On Jan 29, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Greg Schoettmer wrote: > I'm looking for a capability on the Mac that I had on my PC > (Yes, I > know, blasphemy!). In a text document on a Mac, I can delete a > character by > hitting the delete key (on a PC it's the "backspace" key). That > will "back > delete" a character. What I want to do is delete the next character or > "forward delete" (On a PC that is the "Delete" button).
What kind of keyboard do you have? Most recent Apple keyboards have a forward delete key in the home-end block. On recent laptops, the function key held down along with the delete key will forward delete. There are plenty of programs out there that will let you remap your keyboard. I use one on my laptop called uControl [1] to exchange the caps lock and control keys because I got tired of accidentally getting into CAPS MODE AND THEN HAVING TO TURN IT off. I've also used Ukelele[4] for this. There are also programs that'll give you the same keyboard layout as a Windows machine. Check Versiontracker[2] for them. You can buy a program like QuickKeys[3] that'll let you set up a key to do pretty much anything you want, but it's overkill for this little problem. [1] <http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/> [2] <http://www.versiontracker.com> [3] <http://www.startly.com/products/qkx.html> [4] <http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=94> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2398 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060129/427ab649/attachment.bin
