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Its designed for apple and not windows. Note the presence of a command key. Apple calls the backspace key a delete key even though its not. (It may do delete as
by birdman3131 4y ago
Its designed for apple and not windows. Note the presence of a command key. Apple calls the backspace key a delete key even though its not. (It may do delete as a shift option.)
- lloeki 4y ago> Apple calls the backspace key a delete key even though its not Historically the backspace key is literally that, moving the typewriter's carriage back (when the space key moves it forward). On current computers the space key now inserts a "space" character instead of simply moving the cursor a step right. Backspace isn't symmetric to that anymore, as it doesn't even insert a space back but deletes backwards, so it is (pedantically) a misnomer. And this is true for "modern" computers, older ones were closer to teletypes and would move back for overwrite (e.g try vi compat mode).
- jonathankoren 4y agoI personally loved the old Sun keyboards that backspace and delete right above each other so you could fix the most annoying^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcommon terminal problem by just moving a finger instead of screwing around with tty settings.
- drw85 4y agoIsn't this kind of a "point of view" thing? Backspace does add a space backwards. If there was a character there, it gets replaced with a space. :D
- bckr 4y agoThat's not true though. The remainder of the text buffer is shifted. It really is a deletion and not an addition.
- ghodith 4y agoI mean, that's true if you think of a space as exclusively a character. In the physical meaning of the word, what exists in place of the original character is now an empty 'space'. In some pedantic sense you have truly added space where there was once none.
- lloeki 4y agoConsider the behaviour before or after either newlines in plaintext or paragraph ends in word processors. Also soft wrapping. It is truly a deletion now.