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It sucks that it's gone - it took me months to retrain my muscle memory to stop using backspace - but I've definitely accidentally navigated back from a form be
by merlish 9y ago
It sucks that it's gone - it took me months to retrain my muscle memory to stop using backspace - but I've definitely accidentally navigated back from a form before.
I've adjusted. It's a hard decision but imo the right one. Future generations shouldn't have to deal with this.
To anyone reading who needs a keyboard-based substitute: Alt+Left Arrow.
- kuschku 9y ago[Alt]+[←] requires two hands, though: One to press the [Alt] on the far left of the keyboard, one to press [←] on the far right of the keyboard. That’s horrible.
- dawnbreez 9y agoI typically use a vim-like set of keybinds when possible, so for me it's something like shift-H or g,h.
- jholman 9y agoThat's weird, because I press it all the time with one hand. I don't even reliably use the same hand. Does your keyboard not have an Alt key to the right of the space-bar?
- kuschku 9y agoOn international keyboards, there is no right alt key, but instead at that place is [AltGr], which triggers both [Alt] and [Ctrl]. [AltGr]+[M] for example gives μ, [AltGr]+[E] gives € and [AltGr]+[Q] gives [@]. Obviously, [AltGr]+[←] doesn't work. It's one more of those shortcuts that make it obvious that whoever made the decision only ever used a US Standard keyboard, and never even considered international users. The only decisions even worse are ever using ` (it's a 4 key combo on some international keyboards, and not at all existing on others), or ~ \ [ ] { } ( ) ; : (all of these are combinations of usually two or three keys on most international keyboards).