Re: Backspace meaning "go back" in browsers

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Backspace meaning "go back" in browsers
Date: 01:02 on 04 Feb 2005
> compatibility, I think).  On Linux BkSpc was a no-op, and Ben decided
> Linux users would also benefit from another keystroke for moving back,
> so that when they hit the ingrained keystroke for paging up instead of
> merely being mildly irritated by nothing happening, you can be properly
> annoyed by being on a different page to what you wanted.

The ingrained keystroke for paging up is ^B, which opens up your bookmarks
or some daft think like that. It's certainly not ^H, which means "backSPACE"
(or, for the heretics, "help").

X11 users have been spoiled, by the way. No other platform or application
has anywhere NEAR as clean and easy to use a keymap mechanism as X11. Which
is pretty scary, when you think about the multiple layers of keycodes and
keymaps you've gotten used to juggling on X.

There's stuff above here

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