| ▲ | hiAndrewQuinn a day ago |
| Alt-F4 is pretty reliable on Windows, but it's not as catchy because no one likes craning their left hand to reach the function key (even though you could just hold right Alt). |
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| ▲ | tom_ a day ago | parent [-] |
| Right Alt doesn't exist on all keyboard layouts. On the UK layout it's replaced by AltGr, which doesn't do much appart from fail to act as Alt for Alt+F4 purposes, but it has actual uses in other layouts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key |
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| ▲ | makapuf 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In French and other European countries, #[@{}|\] need altgr. You re using this quite a lot developing on Linux. | |
| ▲ | thaumasiotes a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nobody ever uses right alt even if it exists, but it's straightforward to hit F4 with your right hand. Alt+F4 on Windows has the undesirable property that if you hit it several times, and it works, you'll close several different things. Ctrl-C in the terminal won't do this. | | |
| ▲ | spauldo 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | American Emacs-using touch typists use right ALT all the time. ALT-x prompts you for a command, ALT-q in most modes runs fill-paragraph, ALT-f moves the cursor forward by one word, etc. | | |
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