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)
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> 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 > > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
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- What does & mean?