I have to reserve the limited keystroke remembering capacity of my aging brain to more crucial stuff, I am afraid…
Also, the tiny time span passing while mindlessly holding down the “*” key is a welcome pause to clear your mind, take a short breath and gather your thoughts on what the heck you are supposed to be writing in the comment body following the /**********/ line. ;-)
What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness?
That’s exactly why I was initially so intrigued by the heading:
“What on earth could be the mechanism that a bug could have caused this??”
But then I realized we were talking about entirely different kinds of bugs… ;-)
Thanks, actually sounds like a useful feature!
Although as a SW dev I do regularly depend on the repeating character behaviour, but usually not for normal letters.
But typing stuff like:
/*********************************************************/
is pretty common for me and would be annoying without auto-repeat of the respective character…
How does macOS discern between wanting to use diacritics and just trying to write the letter multiple times in a row?
And how do you choose the version you would like to use (I assume by selecting the numbers printed below)?
And yes, I have never used a Mac in my whole life up to now and am therefore completely clueless ;-)
Legit possible solution.
But I normally omit changing the behaviour of the standard keyboard as it will bite me the moment that I am not on my own computer.
Only exception:
I use a similar approach to disable the Tab-Key (and in one case, on a machine with a stripped down keyboard missing the “Pos1” and “End” keys, use Tab and Shift-Tab to emulate these).
I at first was assuming this post was to be about natural selection and the reasons for the current prevalence of right handed people.
Like today’s uneven distribution of blood types caused by different susceptibility to some diseases in former time, like e.g. the evolutionary advantage blood type 0 gives you against Malaria.
So I was initially very confused when the author started rambling about the design of his Wordpress blog instead… 😆
And here I was wondering for ages now, who in his right mind would have chosen the incredibly cumbersome to type triple backticks combo as delimiters for code sections in markdown…
And now this article just told me that the backtick is just another normal key outside of Germany…
But serious question: How do you type characters with the back accent above them? Or you just don’t?
Not funny but shocking and quite a bit frightening.
Too much depends on American citizens making informed and grounded decisions for the whole rest of the world to find that even remotely funny.
As a SW dev in a predev lab / tech demonstration environment: Unfortunately much more often than you would perhaps think…