[ESS] ... when editing R documents, 'delete' key behaves as 'backspace'

[Rodney Sparapani]

Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> Eh, what exactly do you mean? On all the mac keyboards I have been using 
> (which are mostly laptop keyboards, but includes the newer wired "flat" 
> keyboard), backspace is backspace exactly as it is on the Sun keyboard I 
> am using right now. There is a marker on the backspace key saying 
> "delete", but that just indicates that pressing "Fn + Backspace" gets a 
> delete behaviour.
> 
> Here I tactically assume that backspace standard behaviour is to delete 
> backwards and delete is to delete forwards.
> 
> Kasper
> 

Hi Kasper:

Do you read Mac Life magazine?  I just got my copy yesterday and there
was a short section on the history of the Delete key on Mac keyboards.
It describes how the Delete key performs backward delete and how some
keyboards have a Forward Delete key.  Unfortunately, this article does 
not appear to be online anywhere that I could find.  Happy Holidays!

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Rodney Sparapani      Center for Patient Care & Outcomes Research (PCOR)
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