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The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever

Posted by timothy on from the wish-I'd-known-this-15-years-ago dept.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Ryan Vogt writes in the Mercury News that Shakespeare described death as 'the undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.' Did you know there is a the miraculous way to resuscitate tabs sent to the 'undiscovere'd country,' a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet, that means 'no more called-out cusswords, no more wishing the back button had you covered when, aiming to click on a tab, you accidentally hit the little X on the tab's starboard.' For Macs: Command [plus] shift [plus] t reopens the last tab. For PCs: Ctrl [plus] Shift [plus] T. 'Try it right now. Close this tab and bring it back. I dare ya.' Melia Robinson's trick [described for Chrome] works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, too, so clumsy mousing won't send the the E*Trade tab you mistakenly closed all cued up to sell those 10,000 shares of stock or your long political post on your uncle's Facebook page on a one-way trip to the undiscovere'd country in those browsers, either." No guarantees on the stock trading.

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  1. Huh? What? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe it's the alcohol... But I really have no idea what the summary is talking about.

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    1. Re:Huh? What? by m1ss1ontomars2k4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree. Is this just a bad /. post, or literally the worst /. post ever?

    2. Re:Huh? What? by alphatel · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe it's the alcohol... But I really have no idea what the summary is talking about.

      I didnt know either, but after I used the greatest shortcut ever, porn popped up. So it's a porn-regrabber!

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    3. Re:Huh? What? by Fwipp · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's sort of trendy here to talk about how the once-great Slashdot has fallen, and I've mostly considered those people to be whiny old men.

      Today, I realize that they were right.

    4. Re:Huh? What? by GoodNewsJimDotCom · · Score: 5, Funny

      All I use is alt+s on firefox, and click one of the last places I was at.

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    5. Re:Huh? What? by asmkm22 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is one of the worst summaries ever. The topic is bad. The summary is bad. It's confusingly written, without any clear idea as to what point it's trying to convey.

      TLDR: CTRL+Shift+T restores tabs you accidentally closed.

    6. Re:Huh? What? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's where some half-assed tech journalist wannabe discovers the History -> Reopen Last Closed Window shortcut (and the Chrome equivalent) and wants to blare it from the rooftops like we've cured cancer or something.

      He's gonna lose his freaking mind when he discovers Time Machine.

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    7. Re:Huh? What? by vidnet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The summary should read "Several browsers let you press Ctrl-Shift-T to reopen a closed tab. That is all."

      Why this is deserving of an article I don't know.

    8. Re:Huh? What? by Aaron+B+Lingwood · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thirded. No clue what this is actually about.

      I think this is a story about a guy who logs into some banking/trading platform only to leave it idle and proceed to random web browsing in other tabs of the same browser instance.

      I'm sure the story doesn't end well.

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    9. Re:Huh? What? by vidnet · · Score: 5, Funny

      Somehow it claims it's "a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet".

      Come back when it lets me undo posting Slashdot comments with mipselled words.

    10. Re:Huh? What? by frozentier · · Score: 4, Informative

      Why this is deserving of an article I don't know.

      It's not. I've been doing that with Chrome since it first came out.

    11. Re:Huh? What? by demonlapin · · Score: 4, Funny

      What do you think this is, Reddit?

    12. Re:Huh? What? by TheABomb · · Score: 4, Insightful

      To be fair, it's only "very well-known" by people who know how to use browser tabs, which rules out 99% of my family, cow-orkers, and (I'm guessing through extrapolation) the population at large.

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    13. Re:Huh? What? by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Funny

      Something actually works in Explorer? That must be the "news" part of the article.

    14. Re:Huh? What? by Snotnose · · Score: 4, Funny

      This got greenlit? Really? Maybe I should post an article about a wunnerful shortcut that almost always lets you restart your computer without power cycling. Hold these 3 keys down at the same time: control - alt - delete. I call it the 3 finger salute. Maybe I should patent the idea and trademark the name and retire?

    15. Re:Huh? What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other breaking news "CTRL+P" brings up the print dialog! "CTRL+S" SAVES!!!!! More news at eleven!

    16. Re:Huh? What? by gigaherz · · Score: 4, Informative

      HISTORY -> RECENTLY CLOSED TABS

      If you don't show the menubar, I'm sure it's also there in the "one" button.

    17. Re:Huh? What? by Nethead · · Score: 5, Funny

      No. Go back to bed.

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    18. Re:Huh? What? by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There should be a way to punish people for stupid posts so that they cannot post anymore. Whoever is behind this story however deserves a title to have come up with the stupidest, most ridiculous /. story ever that has been accepted and published.

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    19. Re: Huh? What? by somersault · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because undo is used in other contexts too, and it may confuse certain users who wouldn't think to click outside of a text box before hitting ctrl-z for example.

      I'm not sure why this is on Slashdot though. I'd expect people here usually actually look at the options on menus. I usually just right click a tab and choose "reopen closed tab" rather than use the keyboard shortcut.

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    20. Re:Huh? What? by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Funny

      I just closed this tab and tried it... I was very sad to see this article return.

    21. Re:Huh? What? by rwise2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Somehow it claims it's "a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet".

      So it suspends the internet. Wouldn't the rest of the world find that annoying?

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    22. Re:Huh? What? by vidnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The quality of this article did make me suspect that, yes.

  2. ... Keyboard shortcuts are news? by DavidClarkeHR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not trying to jump on the "slashdot has gone down-hill" bandwagon, but ...

    KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE NOT NEWS.

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    1. Re:... Keyboard shortcuts are news? by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Informative

      Wait till they discover Ctrl-Shift-N, and gain the power to recover whole windows!

      Also, minus 10,000 points to the original author and those who quoted him without (sic) for writing "undiscovere'd." Seriously, what the fuck do you think that apostrophe is doing? Get rid of that last E!

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  3. How did this pass moderation? by Bringer128 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is a combined keypress (Ctrl+Shift+T) that is supported by the major browsers worthy of a news article? Even with my low UID this is the lowest of the low I've seen on Slashdot...

    1. Re:How did this pass moderation? by c0d3g33k · · Score: 5, Insightful

      My UID is lower, and this is indeed the lowest of the low.

    2. Re:How did this pass moderation? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Funny

      N00b.

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    3. Re:How did this pass moderation? by Tom · · Score: 4, Funny

      be nice to each other, kids. no fighting. and get off my lawn.

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  4. You've Got to be Kidding Me by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go home, timothy, you are drunk.

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    1. Re:You've Got to be Kidding Me by aliquis · · Score: 5, Funny

      You've Got to be Kidding Me
      Go home, timothy, you are drunk.

      Wait for the dupe in a couple of hours.

  5. And... by guruevi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You discovered a keyboard shortcut in your browser that may or may not work on any other browser in existence and has been in use by yours truly since the invention of tabs? Woohoo, you rock, now go help your mom connect to that YouTube video you posted...

    Slashdot? News for nerds? Stuff that matters?

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  6. seriously?!!? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next on slashdot: Did you know you can read the paper while taking a shit?

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    1. Re:seriously?!!? by MattskEE · · Score: 4, Informative

      The paper that I have next to my toilet doesn't have anything written on it...

  7. Seriously? by gman003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, I can see this becoming a filler article on some crappy "tech" website (coughcoughgizmodocough). But Slashdot? Seriously?

    And it's not even written for our audience. I could see a "top ten keyboard shortcuts users don't know (but should)" or a "comparison of undo buttons between every program" (I can never remember the Emacs one... it's ctrl-x u, right?). But a "dude, check out this awesome keyboard shortcut I just found" for something I've been using at least daily for years?

    Normally I don't say this, but maybe Slashdot really is starting to go downhill...

  8. The greatest shortcut is Ctlr-Alt-Delete by mykepredko · · Score: 5, Funny

    It should have been used on the computer before submitting this article.

    Disappointing,

    myke

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  9. This gibberish gave me a fucking headache. by Type44Q · · Score: 5, Informative

    This gibberish gave me a fucking headache. Enough said.

  10. And next week... The Greatest Keyboard Key Ever! by MOSFET+Explosion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow with the backspace key I can remove my mistakes without having to put whiteout all over my monitor!

  11. I thought /. stories were moderated by wisnoskij · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But apparently any idiot with a keyboard can get on the front page.

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  12. Re:Doesn't fix the real problem. by silver · · Score: 4, Informative

    I cannot count the number of times that I have been filling out a form on a web page and hit the backspace to edit only to discover that I had lost focus on the form and had the tab slammed shut and all information on the form lost.

    To solve that problem, you need the Lazarus Form Recovery addon
    http://getlazarus.com/download

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  13. Ignore other commenters, this was very useful by Tyr07 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't know about this! I've been the IT career for most of my career life!

    I tried it today and it blew my mind! I first went around showing all my co-workers this. They were super amazed and thought I was extra smart!
    They told my manager how incredibly smart I am and I gained +1 to salary! Thank you Slashdot!

    Now all the cute blondes at work worship me to! Knowing this has made me more attractive and successful, and gets me laid!

    Please post more articles like this, a few more and I will be the CEO of a major corporation by being the super office hero guy.