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Nobody said the Mac is the only operating system with keyboard shortcuts, so maybe you're replying to the wrong comment there. The Delete key deletes the chara

Nobody said the Mac is the only operating system with keyboard shortcuts, so maybe you're replying to the wrong comment there. The Delete key deletes the character to the right of the insertion point; the Backspace key deletes the character to the left. You must be wasting a lot of keystrokes! A Delete key also deletes stuff; like E-mails, files... any currently-selected item in most applications. I don't "backspace" E-mails or other objects to delete them.

madeofpalk 4y ago
I guess I just don't delete stuff from left-to-right - most of the time I'm undoing a typo I've just typed, so backspace feel more appropriate. Otherwise decades of habit just has me put the cursor to the right of characters I want to remove. Again, I don't think either is more inherently correct, there's just what you're used to.
- BuckyBeaver 4y ago
  Unfortunately, Apple has decided that Backspace IS "more correct." Everyone else has been providing both keys for decades. If you do a lot of editing, and certainly programming, you quickly chafe at the lack of a Delete key. I've been using Karabiner on the Mac to remap F12 to be Delete, losing the Volume-up control in the process. Annoying, but worth it.
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ziml77 4y ago
On a Mac keyboard layout, the key at the upper right of the main section is named delete. And that name alighns with how it's used across macOS: as the equivalent of the delete key on the PC layout. The exception to that equivalence is in text editing where it behaves like backspace. But macOS doesn't ignore the desire to delete text in the other direction. fn+delete will perform a forward character delete.
- BuckyBeaver 4y ago
  A two-handed, unmarked key combo to delete a single character is a poor substitute for what has been a standard key on almost every other keyboard for decades. Looking at a Macbook keyboard, regardless of what label Apple puts on it, you can see that it's missing either a Backspace key or a Delete key.

madeofpalk 4y ago

I guess I just don't delete stuff from left-to-right - most of the time I'm undoing a typo I've just typed, so backspace feel more appropriate. Otherwise decades of habit just has me put the cursor to the right of characters I want to remove. Again, I don't think either is more inherently correct, there's just what you're used to.

BuckyBeaver 4y ago
Unfortunately, Apple has decided that Backspace IS "more correct." Everyone else has been providing both keys for decades. If you do a lot of editing, and certainly programming, you quickly chafe at the lack of a Delete key. I've been using Karabiner on the Mac to remap F12 to be Delete, losing the Volume-up control in the process. Annoying, but worth it.
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ziml77 4y ago

On a Mac keyboard layout, the key at the upper right of the main section is named delete. And that name alighns with how it's used across macOS: as the equivalent of the delete key on the PC layout. The exception to that equivalence is in text editing where it behaves like backspace. But macOS doesn't ignore the desire to delete text in the other direction. fn+delete will perform a forward character delete.

BuckyBeaver 4y ago
A two-handed, unmarked key combo to delete a single character is a poor substitute for what has been a standard key on almost every other keyboard for decades. Looking at a Macbook keyboard, regardless of what label Apple puts on it, you can see that it's missing either a Backspace key or a Delete key.