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From: Trevor Wright on 22 Jan 2010 08:04 I have bought an imac after 20 years with pcs. I like it very much, and did some research on borrowed machines beforehand. I have and may continue to have some very basic questions. For example, i don't understand what to do with no delete key on the keyboard. Is this the place to ask such questions? Apologies if not. Grateful for any advice. -- Trevor Wright
From: Jim on 22 Jan 2010 08:09 On 2010-01-22, Trevor Wright <newstrap(a)thewrights.uk.com> wrote: > I have bought an imac after 20 years with pcs. I like it very much, and > did some research on borrowed machines beforehand. > > I have and may continue to have some very basic questions. For example, > i don't understand what to do with no delete key on the keyboard. > > Is this the place to ask such questions? Apologies if not. Grateful > for any advice. Absolutely, and welcome. And to answer your first question, the forwards-delete can be simulated by pressing the 'fn' key and the backspace. I think. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It"
From: David Empson on 22 Jan 2010 08:20 Trevor Wright <newstrap(a)thewrights.uk.com> wrote: > I have bought an imac after 20 years with pcs. I like it very much, and > did some research on borrowed machines beforehand. Hi Trevor, and welcome to both the Macintosh and to uk.comp.sys.mac. > I have and may continue to have some very basic questions. For example, > i don't understand what to do with no delete key on the keyboard. I assume you mean no "del" key. The Mac has a "delete" key in the same position as the "backspace" key on a Windows machine. On the US keyboard (which is also standard for me in New Zealand) it is labelled "delete". On the UK keyboard, it is labelled with a symbol that looks like a leftward pointing truncated arrow with an x inside. Its function is to delete the character to the left of the insertion point. If you want to delete the character to the right of the insertion point, the key combination fn-delete will achieve that in most applications. Some applications also recognise Ctrl-D as a forward delete. You can also choose to use a different keyboard, which has the full range of keys including a separate "del" or "forward delete" key. Apple has a full-sized USB keyboard, and most third party USB keyboards also work on a Mac. I expect many third-party Bluetooth keyboards work as well. > Is this the place to ask such questions? Apologies if not. Certainly. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Rowland McDonnell on 22 Jan 2010 08:22 Trevor Wright <newstrap(a)thewrights.uk.com> wrote: > I have bought an imac after 20 years with pcs. I like it very much, and > did some research on borrowed machines beforehand. > > I have and may continue to have some very basic questions. Fire away - basic questions are easy to deal with :-) > For example, > i don't understand what to do with no delete key on the keyboard. Actually, there is a delete key - if you've got what Apple supplies as a keyboard by default these days, that is: the normal small-sized keyboard (no number pad), you have one delete key: the largeish key near the top right with a left arrow on it, that's the delete key (above `return', which has a, erm, loop-back left arrow on it, does that make sense?) btw, if like me you're having trouble typing on the current flat Mac keyboards, you might try raising the rear of the keyboard with big stick-on rubber feet and raising the front with small stick-on rubber feet positioned to *just* lift the keyboard above the desk. With a decent bit of gradient and a bit of give due to the rubber and keyboard flexion ('cos it's lifted up), I can now type at a decent speed again. I couldn't do so before, which was a bit irritating. (I learnt to type on an typewriter - seems that a lot of purely computer keyboard types here don't have any trouble typing on the current Mac keyboard) > Is this the place to ask such questions? Definitely yes. The official charter is this: <http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.comp.sys.mac.html#uk.comp.sys.mac> (that document permitted this newsgroup to be created. I happened to write it, but that's irrelevant[1]). [snip] Rowland. [1] By which I mean: some people might think that makes me the boss of this newsgroup or makes me someone who /thinks/ he's the boss or something like that. Nothing of the sort - I just wrote the charter because no-one else could be bothered and to avoid confusion, I thought I'd better explain, sortathing. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Chris Ridd on 22 Jan 2010 08:22
On 2010-01-22 13:09:04 +0000, Jim said: > On 2010-01-22, Trevor Wright <newstrap(a)thewrights.uk.com> wrote: >> I have bought an imac after 20 years with pcs. I like it very much, and >> did some research on borrowed machines beforehand. >> >> I have and may continue to have some very basic questions. For example, >> i don't understand what to do with no delete key on the keyboard. >> >> Is this the place to ask such questions? Apologies if not. Grateful >> for any advice. > > Absolutely, and welcome. And to answer your first question, the > forwards-delete can be simulated by pressing the 'fn' key and the backspace. > > I think. Also, if you click on the desktop and choose Help > Mac Help from the menus, you should find some useful hints. In "Learn the basics about your Mac" there's a section for Windows escapees, for example. If you prefer books over online help, David Pogue's "Missing Manuals" are well regarded. -- Chris |