# Insert - yeah exactly what I wanted **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 7, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597 "2007-11-07T23:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/41 "2007-11-09T05:05:26Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > On Unix servers, (using PuTTY as an ssh client) CTRL-C will either abort a running process or just echo “^C” to the command line and do nothing. :smack: Of course. Damn, it’s been too long since I’ve run a \*nix box, apparently. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > No. Admittedly, I started doing that before the keys were standardized, but Insert works just fine for me and I don’t have to remember which key is what. Well, I’ve already forgotten which key does which thing with Insert, but ^X/^C/^V is easy: they’re in a row next to each other, it’s just Cut/Copy/Paste. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/42 "2007-11-10T03:00:44Z")
I just realized my keyboard at home doesn’t have a stand-alone Insert key. You have to turn Num Lock of, then hit 0. ---
**Author:** ![tonedef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@tonedef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonedef)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/43 "2007-11-10T05:40:12Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] One of the guys I work with will pry off the caps lock, the windows key and one other that I forget. [/QUOTE] Yeah alot of internet cafes get ride of the winsdows key. I’m pretty sure that in windows you can disable keys so u don’t need to remove them. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/44 "2007-11-10T08:21:09Z")
At work, I’m not a big fan of F11 sometimes. In the computer charting system we use, F12 is “File,” and F11 is “Exit.” Just about any time I hear a nurse, who had previously been quietly sitting at the computer, yell, “CRAP!” I know their finger didn’t go quiiiite far enough to the right after they spent 15 minutes typing up that patient assessment… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/45 "2007-11-10T12:44:27Z")
[The one keyboard that will solve everyone’s problems.](http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/) > [@](#): > > Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function it is currently associated with. > > Optimus is equally good for any keyboard layouts—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana—and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, images etc. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/46 "2007-11-10T13:04:37Z")
I kike all the Windows key shortcuts, too. Win-L, Win-R, and I don’t think anyone has mentioned Win-D (show desktop). OTOH, I have in my time pried off a Caps Lock key. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/47 "2007-11-10T19:56:06Z")
> [@Usram](#): > > I kike all the Windows key shortcuts, too. :eek: Please tell me [that word](http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/kike) means something else in Outer London and the editors of M-W somehow missed it. The analogy that usage brings to mind is not pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/48 "2007-11-10T21:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] I became a hero in my office when I learned how to make a macro that disabled the Insert key. And you can too: [http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-105](http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-105) Should you ever want to use Overwrite Mode, it can be activated from the bottom of the window in MS Word. [/QUOTE] Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/49 "2007-11-10T21:53:32Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] :eek: Please tell me [that word](http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/kike) means something else in Outer London and the editors of M-W somehow missed it. The analogy that usage brings to mind is not pretty. [/QUOTE] :eek: I _like_ all the Windows key shortcuts. Maybe I should move the K further away from the L though. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/50 "2007-11-11T04:44:36Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] :eek: I _like_ all the Windows key shortcuts. Maybe I should move the K further away from the L though. [/QUOTE] Whew! You scared me there, sir. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/51 "2007-11-11T17:16:59Z")
I don’t get the hatred for the Windows key. Apple has been doing it for a lot longer than Microsoft and I haven’t seen any Mac users in here declaring their hatred for the Apple/Curly Thingie key. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/52 "2007-11-11T17:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] I don’t get the hatred for the Windows key. Apple has been doing it for a lot longer than Microsoft and I haven’t seen any Mac users in here declaring their hatred for the Apple/Curly Thingie key. [/QUOTE] Maybe because, IME, the Apple key is located in such a manner that one is unlikely to hit it by accident. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/53 "2007-11-11T17:57:07Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] [The one keyboard that will solve everyone’s problems.](http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/) [/QUOTE] I _waant_ one of these. Even if it is 44,000 rubles. I type in three languages whose keymappings have been known to declare war on each other. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/54 "2007-11-11T18:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I _waant_ one of these. Even if it is 44,000 rubles. I type in three languages whose keymappings have been known to declare war on each other. [/QUOTE] Well, that’s like $1.50 Canadian, right? So go ahead and buy yourself a truckload! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/55 "2007-11-11T18:10:50Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Well, that’s like $1.50 Canadian, right? So go ahead and buy yourself a truckload! 😉 [/QUOTE] Well, $1700 Canadian. And it doesn’t ship till Feb '08. I [del]need[/del] want to get Adobe Design Premium first. Which, oddly enough, is around the same price. ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/56 "2007-12-11T00:02:08Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] I became a hero in my office when I learned how to make a macro that disabled the Insert key…And you can too: [http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-105](http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-105) [/QUOTE] **Sublight** is MY hero! Thank you thank you! I used to reprogram keystrokes all the time on my Mac, but wasn’t figuring out how to do that when the office switched to XP. Never occurred to me to try a macro. Yay! ::happy dancing:: ---
**Author:** ![enigm4tic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@enigm4tic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigm4tic)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597/57 "2007-12-11T00:11:52Z")
My HP laptop has a couple of “quickplay” keys that I tend to accidentally press while using the F-keys, which I do quite a bit in Eve-online. The problem with that is that it instantly minimizes everything I’m doing to launch a media-only program, which is hideously annoying to quit out of. I have no idea how to disable this. None of the actual keys really annoy me that much though. On a related note, though this one was my own fault, I mapped a shortcut in the same game to ctrl-1. Unfortunately, Ctrl-Q is the quit command, and upon trying to use my new shortcut, immediately quit entirely, much to my displeasure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insert-yeah-exactly-what-i-wanted/425597.md?page=2)