Linux person uses (tries to use) Mac OS X

[Dave Mason]

I have an old titanium 15" macbook and a macbook air a keyboards of a
variety of ages on an eMac, and 3 iMacs (an articulated G4, a G5, and an
Intel 24" (I think - it's in a room with a sleeping baby at the moment).
None of the keyboards are missing \ or |.

The macbooks miss pgup, pgdn, home and end, but they are all Fn+some
arrow key.  The delete-back key might conceivably map as backspace (by
which I presume you mean  - i.e. ^H) in some contexts, but it works as
proper  (^?) (0177) everywhere for me.  Delete-forward is
Fn+delete-back.  BTW, you can also set all the f1-f12 keys to send that
code as the default and require Fn-F1 to do the screen-dim or whatever
function (I think by default you have to press Fn-F1 to send a F1 key).

I've been using Unix in one form or another for 27 years, and only
started using Macs when they became Unix-based.  I would not have been
willing to switch if I had to retrain my fingers that much.

BTW, on a unibutton mouse, Ctrl-click is right-click, and Cmd-click is
middle-click.  System preferences can allow you to manipulate what
multi-button mice do.  On multi-finger sensitive trackpads, you can set
that a 2-finger tap is right-click.

While I don't like unibutton mice, the single-button Air trackpad is
fine for me to work with.

../Dave
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