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The original Macintosh keyboard didn't have cursor keys either. You were expected to use the mouse. Star at least had the NEXT key to select the next item/fiel
by kps 4y ago
The original Macintosh keyboard didn't have cursor keys either. You were expected to use the mouse.
Star at least had the NEXT key to select the next item/field, rather than the horrible conflation with TAB that the Macintosh HIG and IBM CUA jointly saddled us with.
- digisign 4y agoWorks well though. I wouldn't want tab characters in my text fields.
- kps 4y agoBut I don't want my ‘next field’ key to suddently stop moving between fields and instead enter characters, just because some fields of text are different from other fields of text. The mess goes back to IBM pre-computer unit record (punch card) equipment, for which fields were just columns on a card and moving to the next tab stop was the same as moving to the next field if you set up your keypunch appropriately.