I believe Clear/⌧ key on the big Apple keyboard is a leftover from the times of professional uses of keypads. It’s a “deterministic correction key” – upon making a mistake while typing a number, it feels safer and quicker to just start the number from scratch…https://twitter.com/MarijnvdWerf/status/1095329642959888386 …
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Clear feels today just a leftover reminder that keyboards used to be Professional Devices For Professionals – the same way not so long ago even MacBook/PowerBook keyboards still distinguished between Return and Enter. But that’s a whole different story. :·)
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(Your job back in the day – and maybe still in some places – might have been to enter thousands of numbers on the keypad *per hour*. Small things like that added up.
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Today, if you ever press Cmd+A to type over a possibly maligned password after your fingers slip and you’re no longer sure, you are perpetuating this old gesture… but using a new shortcut.)
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