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Re: Re: What does & mean?

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  • Subject: [mg107259] Re: [mg107226] Re: [mg107050] What does & mean?
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 06:12:10 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <201002011114.GAA22737@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: drmajorbob at yahoo.com

> I'm on Snow Leopard, but I think it is similar for other recent versions  
> of OS X.
>
> Go to System PReferences, then Keyboard. Under the Keyboard panel, there  
> is a checkbox
>
> Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.
>
> use the fn key to use the special features.

Nope. There's no such checkbox.

Bobby

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:22:59 -0600, George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>  
wrote:

> I'm on Snow Leopard, but I think it is similar for other recent versions  
> of OS X.
>
> Go to System PReferences, then Keyboard. Under the Keyboard panel, there  
> is a checkbox
>
> Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.
>
> use the fn key to use the special features.
>
> On Leopard, the pref panel is called Keyboard and Mouse.
>
> On the standard Apple keyboard, the fn key is in group of keys above the  
> cursor arrows.
>
> The Pref panel will probably change its functionality depending on what  
> hardware is attached -- it does for the mouse, that's for sure.
>
> In Snow Leopard, there is a pane in the Keyboard panel called Keyboard  
> shortcuts. You can assign shortcuts for system level stuff as well as  
> app specific shortcuts. There are third party apps that may do this  
> better, but I don't have them to check.
>
> This is the pane that you refer to. The F keys are controlled en masse  
> by the other pane.
>
> george
>
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:46 PM, DrMajorBob wrote:
>
>> In System Preferences> Keyboard Shortcuts, I can customize many  
>> commands to respond to specific keystrokes. I recall changing some of  
>> these according to advice from Deke McClelland's book "Photoshop CS4  
>> Channels & Masks".
>>
>> I do NOT see a way to change all F keys at once, in any fashion... and  
>> I do NOT see an assignment for F1 anywhere.
>>
>> Hence, I can only surmise that my Advantage Kinesis keyboard is  
>> responsible for the (laudable) outcome that F1 is Help on my machine.
>>
>> Just as you don't see 'fn' keys, I don't see a "function key row". (Nor  
>> have I had need of it, nor seen any application that referred to it.)
>>
>>> lot, then it makes sense to set the system preference. (That panel  
>>> will give instructions on how to temporarily invert the sense of the  
>>> keys.)
>>
>> I see no such instructions.
>>
>> Are we both using Snow Leopard?
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:28:45 -0600, George Woodrow III  
>> <georgevw3 at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How the top row of the keyboard is used depends on a preferences and  
>>> can be set in System Preferences (OS X).
>>>
>>> I normally use the keys for the uses printed on the keytops  
>>> (brighter/dimmer, Widgets, etc.), but I can hold down the fn key  
>>> (lower left on my MacBook Pro) to use the standard F1. (The system  
>>> pref inverts the default action.)
>>>
>>> There is no 'fn' key on my iMac keyboard. I'm sure that there is a way  
>>> to invert the sense of the function key row, but I'm too lazy to crank  
>>> up the computer to find out. If you use the F keys for F1, F2, etc. a  
>>> lot, then it makes sense to set the system preference. (That panel  
>>> will give instructions on how to temporarily invert the sense of the  
>>> keys.)
>>>
>>> You can get the same action with shift-cmd-F, which is what I usually  
>>> do.
>>>
>>> george woodrow iii
>>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:11 AM, DrMajorBob wrote:
>>>
>>>> F1 is help on MY Mac. I don't know why it isn't on yours!
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it's because I don't use the standard, moronic (designed to  
>>>> maximize
>>>> carpal tunnel) Apple keyboard?
>>>>
>>>> Bobby
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:26:47 -0600, Michael Knudsen  
>>>> <micknudsen at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bob,
>>>>>
>>>>>> "&" indicates a pure function. Select "&" and hit F1 and the search
>>>>>> results will include a link to Function.  #1 == #2 & is shorthand  
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> Function[#1 == #2]
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your very thorough reply. I'm on a Mac, and the F1 thing
>>>>> does not exist there -- I found out, since a colleague found the
>>>>> solution today on a Windows machine. I have just discovered that  
>>>>> there
>>>>> is a similar function here, it is even called "Find selected
>>>>> function", but I overlooked it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Michael Knudsen
>>>>> micknudsen at gmail.com
>>>>> http://sites.google.com/site/micknudsen/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
>
>


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