Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by reitanqild on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:35AM (#17417176)

Both linux and Windows seems to get basic text selection right, yes.

Of modern desktop os-es, Mac OS X was the only one who has ever consistently surprised me on this.

It might not be a big deal to everyone but for me who

- deal with text day out and day

- and prefer to keep my hands at the keyboard (even when I have a nice trackpad)

small thing like this matters.

Just like details like a good trackpad matters to other people I guess.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by foldr on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:46AM (#17417869)

The text selection shortcuts are completely consistent on modern OS X, in my experience. At least, I can't find an app where shift+alt+right_arrow doesn't select a word.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by reitanqild on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:39PM (#17418932)

I've moved on but between 2009 and 2012 this changed from application to application.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by yellowapple on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:58PM (#17418591)

I've also yet to find an instance in macOS where Emacs-style text navigation shortcuts didn't Just Work™ automatically. One of the few things about macOS that I actually like relative to the average Unix/Linux desktop.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by jjtheblunt on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @03:17PM (#17452899)

they have been for 30 years, NeXTstep and non-NeXTstep MacOS. I think Larry Teslar of Apple (long ago now) was part of that. Also, TextFields in the NeXT and now Apple codebase know various Emacs key bindings by default.

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