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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by addicted on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:53AM (#15500188)
> The terminal, for instance, has an instant man page key.

So, F1 on Windows basically?

It seems to me that a lot of advantages mentioned by folks on the touchbar are born of Apple’s refusal to actually use the Fn keys as shortcut keys, unlike on Windows.

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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by rbanffy on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:57AM (#15500233)
Not quite, because F1 meaning help is entirely a convention. Much like :q! is quit or C-x C-f is open file and Meta is the alt/option key.

That's one of the reasons I use the F-keys on the PC122 so little - it's hard to remember what I made them do.

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