Talk:Control key
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I've a old Microsoft DOS 2.10 manual from September 1983 which uses Ctrl-C style notation and so have labeled that style "Old Microsoft". I can't recall seeing it written this way before then. The manual also writes CTRL-C.
- I'm guessing someone got the capitalization mixed up on the old/new MS styles, I just corrected the new one to Ctrl+C (from CTRL+C). I agree with you, that's what I recall the old style as, so I'm going to change that. -FunnyMan 15:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Unless I misinterpret it, the ASCII page shows that the CTRL button zeroes only the first three bits (not four, as this article says. Zeroing all four bits would leave you with only four variable bits, which would let you access only sixteen, not thirty-two, new values.) I'm changing it
[edit] Other Combinations
For you guys to check out...
- Ctrl+Up Arrow: Previous Para
- Ctrl+Down Arrow: Next Para
- Ctrl+Esc: Start Menu
- Ctrl+F4: Closes "Sub-Window" or Tab (in tabbed browsing)
- Feel free to add more combos... if these above ones work quite universally, do add them to the article; i haven't done so.
On a sidenote, this list of shortcuts is missing from most other articles in the Keyboard Keyz Seriez. Some kind soul should start one up for all of them! Alveolate 16:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- "In modern computers the interpretation of keypresses is generally left to the software, modern keyboards distinguish each physical key from every other and report all keypresses and releases to the controlling software. This additional flexibility is not often taken advantage of and it usually does not matter, for example, whether the control key is pressed in conjunction with an upper or a lower case character."
What about ctrl+tab vs ctrl+shift+tab? --71.142.100.26 (talk) 07:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
