The Post Your Thoughts of the Moment Thread 2

[FierceDeity]

Idk what version you're working with, but in 2011 full, backspace only removes measure contents, not the measures themselves.

[Zunawe]

Delete removes measures themselves.

[SlowPokemon]

The backspace key has always deleted the actual measures as long as you highlight the measure in every staff. Like if you have a piano solo, you would need to highlight the RH staff and the LH staff and then hit backspace to delete the measure. You can use the shift key to highlight a large amount of measures at the same time.

[FierceDeity]

Well, considering I literally just did it before even typing that response to make sure I wasn't just remembering incorrectly, and it only removed the measure contents, I'm gonna go ahead and disagree, unless you use Mac and it's different than on Windows for some reason.

[SlowPokemon]

I swear to god I just opened finale in windows and it still works for me I don't know what's going on

[SlowPokemon]

I just realized I've been doing ctrl-x not backspace

Still a keyboard shortcut though

[braix]

Wait how do you confuse Ctrl+X and Backspace

[MaestroUGC]

Very carefully.

[Olimar12345]

Ctrl+x is cut, so you're not really deleting anything. d:

[FierceDeity]

I just realized I've been doing ctrl-x not backspace

Still a keyboard shortcut though

Oh yeah, ctrl-x works too, I just tend to avoid it because I'll often have something on the clipboard that I'm meaning to paste later (i.e. if I decide something works better for later in the form, but I'm not sure where yet).

[MaestroUGC]

In cases like that I'll just paste it further along in a blank part of the score for safe keeping, while saving often, naturally.

[FierceDeity]

That, too. It kinda varies based on how short-term I think my indecision is going to be.

[FierceDeity]

Unrelated double post, but the title text of the last xkcd comic got me interested in the difference between QWERTY and dvorak, and while I still don't really have an opinion on which is superior (from the information I've seen, apparent advantages of either could likely be explained by variables external to their actual setup), a lot of discussions I saw tended to distinguish between "touch-typing" and "hunt-and-peck" typing for either. And I'm really curious now; is "hunt-and-peck" (i.e. needing to frequently look down at/search for the keys while typing) actually common for people who've been typing somewhat regularly for several years? Like, sure, I'll look down occasionally for the more obscure character that I haven't used in months (so basically just ^ and &), but I haven't actually needed anything more than the marks on the F and J keys as a point of reference for quite some time now. (Though now that I'm actually thinking about it, I notice that I do instinctively check from time to time, albeit without interrupting my rhythm)

[Zunawe]

Simply hunting and pecking is much less common than I think it used to be. I do, however, know multiple people with their own style of typing similar to it. One friend in particular only uses the first three fingers on each hand for characters, his thumb for spaces, and his pinkies for shift/ctrl. He types at a slightly above average speed.

[SlowPokemon]

I type really fast but I don't really follow a system. Just the result of several years typing.