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- moonrat
- I'm a recovering editorial assistant. I'm like most of my kind: impoverished coffee-and-gin survivalists, underpaid but ambitious, bitter but hopeful. Painfully self-conscious, woefully self-congratulatory, willfully self-indulgent. Yes, I'm white, but I'm trying to get over it. Accurate spelling (to the dismay of my boss) is not among my interests. So read forgivingly.
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27 comments:
I've always been partial to Esc. Or Tab. I wonder when that soda is going to get here?
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I think my space bar gets the most love, judging by the amount of shine/wear on it... But secretly I'm in love with the curly brackets! Shh, don't tell.
Careful! Don't delete yourself!
Mine is ctrl+z (undo). It's like going back in time.
Ooooh, Rick! Great idea for a middle grade book. "Roscoe and the Amazing Time Travel Keyboard."
Rick--oh yes. I too am a big fan of changing my mind. I also like (to a lesser degree) control+Y, so I can change it back again.
Delete is good but backspace is better.
I am a fan of the ~tilde~ myself.
I just posted a blog entry about this!
http://seeheatherwrite.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-i-love-delete-key.html
Get out of my head!!!!!
I prefer the "I" key--but some people say I'm egocentric.
"F-2" for me.
It does delete things (in certain programming languages) ... but I think I like the "F" in-front the best. Because when I'm using it I'm really thinking "F-U, too!"
< / self-confession >
Wish I could hit a "delete" button in real life conversations and a number of other situations!
Cheers, JIll
CAPS LOCK and !!!!
My delete button doesn't work. Is 160,000 words too long for a first manuscript? Wait. Sorry. I'm not done yet. I'll get back to you with a final word count.
When you push it three times it really feels good...delete, delete, delete.
You need one of these.
I wholeheartedly agree. :nods emphatically:
Megs - Scattered Bits
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I do adore the delete key - but the backspace is closest to my heart :)
Not my favorite yet. I guess that means I need to delete a lot more still.
In my dreams, I imagine you typing out
My favorite button on the keyboard by fart!
then deleting the t and having a quiet chuckle to yourself.
I'm with the "undo" crowd as well. :)
I can always tell if I've been on the computer too much if I do something in real life and think "Ah! Undo! Where's the undo?"
Delete and Backspace are wonderful inventions. As is "Print Screen".
I didn't know that ctrl+z was undo, so I have officially learned something today.
I keep hitting HOME, but nothing's happening.
If you like Delete, you'll love Ctrl-A Ctrl-X.
Use it only once, and your world is suddenly a much... simpler place.
That post length to number of comments ration is becoming extreme.
secretly I'm in love with the curly brackets! Shh, don't tell.
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