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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I often use ctrl-A ctrl-K to do the same thing, but with bash-style shortcuts. This also means when I'm on my home PC I end up doing really wacky things because they have their own mappings to those keybinds.
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All I can contribute is that Clear was in the Lisa keymap by July, 1981 https://archive.org/details/Lisa_Hardware_Reference_Manual_1981-07-07_Apple/page/n35 …pic.twitter.com/TDn7CcTA1G
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