I 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

Pentadactyl is your friend, friend

http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/

I never really looked at it - I guess it's time to finally try it. Thanks.

This 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.

My 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.

I 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.

Well, 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…)

Haha, well done. Yes I would have had to look that up.

OMG this works in Chrome.