Inserting Keys

[Michael Wallace]

So we established in my previous thread that pretty much nobody uses the insert key. So to follow on from some suggestions in that thread, here's a new thread where we all want (yes, want) to hear your suggestions for keys to remove, and, more importantly, what you'd replace them with.

Do take into account where the key you're replacing is. For instance, if you like chatting up hot laydeez on MSN a lot you might think it's worth losing your Z so you can easily type a/s/l in one press, but not a key that's harder to hit.

Ultimately we want to produce the Ultimate Keyboard, no useless shit like scroll lock, instead awesome things like a button that emails Charlie to tell him that apterous is down/rubbish/gay.

[Charlie Reams]

How about a button that automatically Likes all of Matt Morrison's posts? It would save a lot of you a lot of time, you sycophantic fucks.

[Peter Mabey]

An OOPS (undo SEND) key

[Matt Morrison]

How has Meakin not suggested an ANY key yet?

I'll have a think though - good question, but, almost unexpectedly, nothing is really springing to mind.

[David O'Donnell]

How has Meakin not suggested an ANY key yet?

I'll have a think though - good question, but, almost unexpectedly, nothing is really springing to mind.

Seriously, all this Meakin bashing is in really bad taste and, frankly, I expected better from you.

[Jon O'Neill]

How has Meakin not suggested an ANY key yet?

I'll have a think though - good question, but, almost unexpectedly, nothing is really springing to mind.

Seriously, all this Meakin bashing is in really bad taste and, frankly, I expected better from you.

You could have a custom DOD keyboard, which replaces Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Pause|Break with "high horse reply", "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply" and "shitfaced reply", and you'd never need to go to the trouble of typing again.

[Dmitry Goretsky]

pretty much nobody uses the insert key

I use Ctrl+C for copy, then Ctrl+V for paste. LOL

[Charlie Reams]

How has Meakin not suggested an ANY key yet?

I'll have a think though - good question, but, almost unexpectedly, nothing is really springing to mind.

Seriously, all this Meakin bashing is in really bad taste and, frankly, I expected better from you.

You could have a custom DOD keyboard, which replaces Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Pause|Break with "high horse reply", "talk shit that nobody understands about philosophy reply" and "shitfaced reply", and you'd never need to go to the trouble of typing again.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

[Marc Meakin]

Glow in the dark keys.

[Charlie Reams]

Glow in the dark keys.

MacBooks do that. They seem to have some kind of light sensor which enables the glowing keys when you're in a dark environment.

[Gavin Chipper]

A donkey. Failing that, a horse.

[Simon Myers]

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Hey, how about a quote key?

[Gavin Chipper]

A Dmitry Gorets-key

[Lesley Hines]

A joystick-style mouse in the keyboard like they do on laptops. I can never find my mouse. Since they've had the decency to put a right-click key in (and the left-click's easy) there ought to be something convenient to navigate. More so than the tab, anyway.

[Michael Wallace]

A joystick-style mouse in the keyboard like they do on laptops.

For future reference.

[Liam Tiernan]

A Dmitry Gorets-key

A Dmitry Go'way-key would be very useful.

[Dmitry Goretsky]

A Dmitry Gorets-key

DG-key

[Matt Morrison]

today is... INTRNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY (great site)

[Ryan Taylor]

today is... INTRNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY (great site)

Link doesn't work for me.

[Michael Wallace]

today is... INTRNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY (great site)

Lovin' it.

[Matt Morrison]

today is... INTRNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY (great site)

Lovin' it.

I've only just realised that you have to highlight the white-text-on-white-background in order to be able to appreciate half of it:

capslock activitees
* capslock lights
* capslock tree
* capslock shotgun in capslock gloved capslock hand shooting capslock haters all night long mutherfuckers
* pusha da capslock over and over and over and over!!!!!!!!!!!

The pictures of Black Santa and a potato are also excellent and highly relevant.