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Shortening the rope

Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 8, 2009 6:12 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Shortening the rope by russell
Parent article: Shortening the rope

Power buttons are universally understood to mean 'turn this thing off'. Backspace is ... not.

Even so, you'll note that pressing the power button these days just pops up a dialog box.


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Shortening the rope

Posted Apr 8, 2009 7:28 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Backspace turns off my Emacs all the time. ;)

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