Wednesday, May 17, 2006

I Hate the Overstrike Key

Why is it so prominently positioned on the keyboard and word processor? It does not make it more convenient to use intentionally, it just makes it easier to use accidentally. Come to think of it, why is it even there in the first place?

Who uses the damned thing? My computer ain't no typewriter. I can delete and write again in the same space. Overstrike is just confusing. I really see no reasonable use for it. Let's just let it die.

3 Comments:

At 6:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sometimes it's necessary for someone to know that you've edited text.

Formal documents that have already been read...yep.

 
At 9:39 PM, Blogger Theo Von Hohenheim said...

OK, there's one use. I'll grant it existence. Just make the damn thing harder to do.

 
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