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What is the point of Scroll Lock???

J

jfall

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I would love to know the importance of Scroll Lock on a keyboard? what does it do? does anyone ever use it?
 
A key on PC and enhanced Macintosh keyboards that controls the way the cursor control keys work for some programs. Many applications ignore the Scroll Lock setting.

It was meant for older programs to switch between going down thru the text and scrolling the document.

Thats what i heard...
 


<< There are two ways to scroll through an Excel worksheet without changing the cell selection. One way is to use the scroll bars. You can scroll anywhere you want by clicking on the vertical or horizontal scroll buttons. Another (and easier) way to scroll without changing the cell selection is to press the Scroll Lock key and then use the arrow keys to scroll through the worksheet. You suspected that Scroll Lock key was good for something, didn't you? >>

 
In FreeBSD the only way to scroll on a Virtual Console, such as to examine a 'dmesg' is to have scroll lock on and then use page up. I can't speak for anything recent, but that was the way on my old FreeBSD 4.0 STABLE machine...

My $0.02
 


<< If the button is useless now, why is it on keyboards now? >>



Because PC makers have trouble changing any old standard. Examples: parallel port, floppy drive, dos.
 
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