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Shift-space scrolls up a page. Thank you! I come from Unix, I'd have expected b or backspace to scroll up a page, been disappointed by browsers numerous times,
by tripa 12y ago
Shift-space scrolls up a page. Thank you!
I come from Unix, I'd have expected b or backspace to scroll up a page, been disappointed by browsers numerous times, and just lived without it.
- gohrt 12y agoOMG this works in Chrome.
- jessaustin 12y agoMy mind boggles. This is like a relative of mine, who has used desktop computers for decades, and recently revealed an ignorance of ctrl-c, ctrl-v. I think I actually cried a little bit for her.
- xorcist 12y agoI too am stunned that someone has used their computer for many years without ever having to send SIGINT, but perhaps she only uses very well behaved applications? It's not often however you have to send raw characters. Several of my coworkers didn't even know what that particular control sequence did when I quizzed them, so that doesn't surprise me at all.
- 0942v8653 12y agoWell, I don't know. Control+V is pretty important for paging through content. Even people who don't use raw characters have to be able to scroll (which just happens to be what this article is about…)
- jessaustin 12y agoHaha, well done. Yes I would have had to look that up.
- josho 12y agoThis is a common (and brilliant) pattern on Mac's. Once you learn the keyboard shortcut for an action, you've immediately learned how to do the opposite action, eg. Undo: Cmd-Z Redo: Cmd-Shift-Z.
- vacri 12y agoI use Firefox, where / is 'search in page' just like unix tools. I flop around like a dying fish when I have to use Chrome, where you have to use the gasp chorded keys ctrl+f. A lifelong unixy sysadmin friend of mine particularly hates browsers and ctrl-w. To him, 'ctrl-w' means 'clear text field', particularly useful for things like password prompts where you can't see what's been written. So he goes to clear a password field in a browser window... and the webpage disappears