Re^4: What is your favorite alternate name for a (specific) keyboard key?

german keyboard layouts (QWERTZ), where the tilde originally was absent.

Are you sure? The tilde was available at least on all PC/AT keyboards I've ever owned since the 1980s.

Meanwhile it is on our keycaps, but I'm not sure about its "canonical" location

~ is usually (DOS, OS/2, Windows, Linux, *BSD) mapped to [AltGr] + [+*]. Macs, typewriters and home computers may be different.

Alexander

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Re^5: What is your favorite alternate name for a (specific) keyboard key? by soonix (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2016 at 08:24 UTC
Seems like you caught me here - my memory looks more like this :-)	[reply]
Re^6: What is your favorite alternate name for a (specific) keyboard key? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2016 at 08:43 UTC
Wow, a dedicated key for Paamayim Nekudotayim! ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: What is your favorite alternate name for a (specific) keyboard key? by soonix (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2016 at 13:53 UTC
yep, I'm not exactly sure for what it was, probably margin release key or some such...	[reply]