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Pressing the wrong key: Another sad story

Remember “Pressing the wrong button: a sad story” — the sad tale of an Apple Mail user who hit Send instead of Delete?

Here’s another mistyped keystroke story involving some finger-slippage between the shortcuts for Dictionary and Send.

I felt for him. I did something similar yesterday. Reading this made me glad that I have modified my Send keyboard shortcut.

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One Response to “Pressing the wrong key: Another sad story”

  1. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » A smarter Dictionary shortcut says:
    November 10th, 2005 at 10:01 am

    [...] Not wanting to send email by mistake when trying to check a word in the Dictionary (like this poor guy), the poster decided to change the keyboard shortcut for the Dictionary from Control-Command-D to F7. (You could of course choose any shortcut you like, following the instructions here and modifying the “Look up in Dictionary” shortcut. [...]

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