Shift-space FTW
August 6th, 2006
Whoa!
Pressing the space bar in a read-only rich-text or HTML view (e.g. Mail.app, Safari) advances the scroll position by a page (satisfying habits of Eudora or more users). This is old news. But I just now discovered that holding down Shift will reverse the scroll direction.
Brilliant.
[Yes, yes, I'll write a little about Vancouver and USENIX Security in the next day or two. I'm still recovering; it was a long week.]
2 responses
This is actually true on Windows as well, and has been the case on both platforms (Linux too?) for as long as I can remember.
comment posted at 1:03 pm on 16 Aug 2006
Huh. It’s funny how you can use a UI element daily and still periodically discover new things about it. [How many UNIX-to-Mac converts out there know that all Cocoa text-entry widgets support EMACS line-editing keystrokes (^A, ^E, ^K, etc.)?]
comment posted at 1:33 pm on 16 Aug 2006