with fucking music, I wasn't prepared for that
Well, I just clicked the link to see if this also includes the Girl from Ipanema…
Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
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Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#252The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…
After 20 years of using keyboards, I have, thanks to this comment, discovered the "Home" button.
Other keys that may be non-obvious:
- Insert toggles between shifting characters after the cursor to the right and deleting the character to the right of the cursor, replacing it with the new character you typed, but not replacing a newline character. While eg. Caps Lock is global, Insert mode is local to the text input that currently has focus - tab or mouse over to a new window and you've lost Insert mode, tab back to the one where you previously set it and you're back to Insert mode.
- Delete is like Backspace, but deletes stuff to the right of the cursor.
- Home, as you discovered, moves browsers to the top of the page. When composing text, it moves the cursor to the start of the line (and vice versa with "End"), CTRL+Home moves to the start of the text entry box.
- Page Up and Page Down shift the cursor by screenfulls of text, typically leaving a couple lines at the top and bottom for context. Note to web developers who are unfamiliar with keyboards: Make sure your fixed/sticky header/footer banners don't hide content when using "Page Up" and "Page Down". Also of note, CTRL+Page Up/Down and CTRL+Tab/CTRL+Shift+Tab shift the window or tab focus within an application, for example to go to the next tab in Chrome or the next file in your IDE.
- Print Screen creates a screenshot. Depending on your setup, this may either go to your Pictures folder, or may go to the clipboard (open an image editor eg. Win+R, mspaint, and CTRL+V to paste). It shares a key with SysRq, which can be accessed with Alt+SysRq+(magic letter), and used to recover from various crash conditions - be careful, if you start hitting letters at random, you'll invoke the bad kind of magic that will shut down your computer.
- Scroll lock was used to stop auto-scrolling an input buffer that was running too fast. Largely neutered in modern OSes, it's still useful in the BIOS when all the hardware initialization messages are scrolling by too fast to read. Sometimes it's also used to toggle keyboard backlighting because it had an LED attached and doesn't have a real function anymore, but depending on the manner in which your OS/hardware neuters this key your keyboard backlighting may not work.
- Pause/Break kills a process like CTRL+C, but sometimes has different specific modes of operation in various debuggers. Access the "break" alternate function with CTRL+Pause.
- Super/Windows key opens the Start menu or search tool. On Macs, it's the Command key and used for lots of keyboard shortcuts. Hyper useful for window management, Super+arrow keys move screens to the left or right half of the monitor, maximize, resize, or minimize them, and Shift+Super+arrow moves them between multiple monitors.
- Num lock toggles between entering numbers with the 10-key section of the keyboard and that section's alternate navigation functions, where 7 is home, 1 is end, 9 is page up, 3 is page down, and 4/8/6/2 are left/up/right/down respectively. Not really important if you've got an inverted-T arrow cluster and Super useful on some dumb 17" laptops that cram in a 10-key section but relegate all these normal navigation keys to arcane random Function invocations on tiny distant buttons crammed into the top of the keyboard if they're present at all. Uniquely, Num Lock is typically remembered across reboots.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#253The "back to top" functionality is so useful in web pages. I wish they would make a dedicated button on keyboards that just takes you to the top of the page. Better yet, it can work in other apps too! It could, for example, take you to the beginning of a line when you're writing text. Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a…
I definitely got your joke and had a snicker. I wonder if part of the reason the obviousness is missing some people is that many of us use Macs, and the "beginning of a line" behavior is not the default behavior in most native Mac apps.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
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Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#255If this were a chrome extension, I'd be down.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
It still amazes me that people tolerate that as a substitute. It's a key combo that requires two hands, for what on a regular keyboard is one finger. Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer?
Well, no. Mac people expect their Butler to carefully hold the coffee cup for them and tilt it so they can take a sip.
My butler chortled
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cant tell if this is sarcasm or not, but "Home" key does this...
The Home key is fine if you're on a PC. On a Mac the only time you'll see one is on some extended external keyboards. It's rare, if nonexistent on Mac laptops. So you need to press Cmd+Up. Yes, it's two keys instead of one but I would argue it's actually quicker since they are both usually located on the bottom row, meaning there is less distance for your hand to travel.
Cmd + Up is similar in behavior to the macOS Home key behavior, but slightly different. On laptops (or any desktop keyboard with a Fn key), Home is Fn + Up. The differences are:
- Home (and Fn + Up) don't move your caret if you're in an editing context, except...
- Some apps have different behavior for Home than go-to-top. Typically these exceptions use the Windows behavior of go-to-start-of-line (obviously this does move your cursor).
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#258How many other people are quitting web development after seeing this? I think the work is done, there isn't anything else needed here.
What's the opposite of development? I think we need web un-development to get us out of this javascript tar pit.
Making actual stuff instead of a “content framework”.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
After 20 years of using keyboards, I have, thanks to this comment, discovered the "Home" button.
This amazes me. Thanks for your honesty, there are probably millions of people who are in the same position. While you're looking down, wouldn't hurt to look at all the different keys and give them a try.
The first thing I do with any new device is push all the buttons to see what they do.
Push, push-and-hold, and push multiple times quickly.
Re: Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
#260Cute gag, but why is this top story? Not that there's anything wrong with /r/ProgrammerHumor but I go to HN for different reasons.
Because a few hundred people upvoted it over the last few hours. That I know for sure, though I can't speak to their reasons for visiting HN in the first place.