What was the use case?
>>101435961You can put a sticker on it and map it to something useful.
I use it to turn off my remaps being on/off
>>101435961Text going by too fast, so you hit the break.
>>101435961>What was the use case?
>>101435995>you hit the breakthe key says scrol log though not break, that's the key next to it
>>101435961It locks your scrolls, retard
>>101436018That's for breaking programs.
>>101435961Way worse is the Number Lock key. I don't know who or why anyone would use the number pad as directional keys when the actual directional keys are literally just right next to it. The number pad is for crunching numbers, period. At least the scroll lock is useless whereas the number lock is an actual hindrance, so many times I start to to type in numbers only to realize all I did was move the text cursor a bunch of times.
>>101436051yes that is why you hit the break, not for text scrolling that s for the scrol log
>>101436084numpad nav predates the separate nav cluster
it was used to toggle between moving the cursor/selection and moving the view area.
>>101436084>boomer STILL does not know how to use numlock
>>101436116Yeah but they should've gotten rid of it after directional keys became the norm on every single desktop and laptop keyboard but over forty years later it still exists. >>101436142I'm Gen Z, I think a boomer would actually be the one to know how to use it.
>>101436140*is, if you actually use your computer for work.
>>101435961I have a kvm that uses it to switch between computers.
>>101436160>on every single desktop keyboardno.
>>101435961it switches between scrolling the screen and changing the cursor position when using your arrow keys, for example in Excelwhat don't you understand?
>>101436027I have the urge to make a fantasy game one day where this is exactly what Scroll Lock does, mainly to troll the mini-keyboard users. Pause will likewise be the only way to pause the game.
>>101435961An ancient relic of the DOS era, just like pause break
>>101436456You'd better come up with a pretty good reason for why I'd want to lock my scrolls. Also, I like the way you think. I'd play it.
>>101436331That's not a real keyboard
you use it when you accidentally hit it and excel acts weird.
Prevent teletext printer to run out of paper from mischief
>>101436084I like it more when direction buttons are arranged with circular symmetry. Circularly asymmetric directions are the first step to nonconservation of angular momentum, and nobody wants that. Symmetry-wise, even hjkl is less awkward than <-V-> and then suddenly bumped ^.
>>101435979fpbp
>>101436331only 10 F keys?!? how the hell would you maximize a window?
>>101435961In excel you scroll the whole spreadsheet when using arrow keys instead of moving to the next cell.
>>101435961What about that pause break button? I never once got a fucking break when i pressed that thing. Its some concentration camp "work sets you free" bullshit
>>101435961Turns off automatic scroll.Primarily, this means appearance of text don't make the screen move to the new text.But it has been used in other scroll-related ways, such as to switch movement key behavior between movement of cursor and scroll.
>>101436513to prevent them from being stolen of course.
>>101437414Maybe they constantly try to run away because of wild magic emissions and it makes any mage in this world a glorified tard handler for scrolls?
>>101436733Windows +
>>101436008Excel.Back in DOS days it worked as a flow control key for console output. But today it's mostly just used for controlling scrolling of Excel sheets.Also if you set the registry key to enable it, you can use ctrl+scroll lock to cause a BSOD. It's a leftover developer feature for testing the kernel crash handler.
>>101435961In Worms Armageddon it stops the screen from moving whenever something happens off screen
>>101437628based
>>101436768it sends a non-maskable interrupt, you unfunny faggot
>>101436364I can imagine OP wouldn’t have stumbled over that. I last used Scroll Lock on a Linux or FreeBSD machine without X, but if you’re SSHing in from a graphical terminal you won’t need it.
Ok cool now tell me about turbo key
>>101436364Isn't it redundant when there's "page up/down" keys?
>>101439319when Intel made new CPUs they were faster than the 8086, but some old DOS games depended on the specific clock speed of the 8086 so the turbo button was added. by default it's in turbo mode which lets the CPU go as fast as possible but disabling it makes the CPU as fast as an 8086 so the games don't run at hyper speed
There was a TSR for DOS (or was it part of some ANSI driver) that had screen scrollback mode enabled by scroll lock.
>>101435961it literally says what it did on the button in your picture?!
>>101439407With scroll lock toggled on, you can pan one cell at a time. With Page Up/Down you pan an entire page plus you can't pan right or left unless you hold down the ALT key at the same time. If you only want to pan left or right one or two times ALT+Page Up/Down could be faster. If you're doing it a lot or want fine control per cell instead of per page, toggling Scroll Lock is better.
>>101436456>you will never experience the alternate reality where Hideo Kojima is the mastermind behind the Elder Scrollsit hurts
>>101435961>wasI still use it to kill scripts on Windows since sometimes Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Z won't work
It was considered useless in 1999
>What was the use case?
>>101436084>i never played a rogue-like
Why would MS Excel need its own key on a keyboard
>>101440250Which gamers are using the number lock key? Most people today play with a controller.>article written almost 25 years agoNevermind.
>>101435961Stops scrolling
>>101441184gta
>>101436160>removes the key>keyboard at ICBM silo stops working>replacement doesn't have the key>ICBM explodes on launchMany such cases
>>101441063Because Excel is wildly popular, especially with money folks, which makes them more important customers than those of us dirtbags that fiddle around with FOSS toys all day.
