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What is the porpose of this key next to the left shift??? Instead of giving me a wider shift key, you gave me two forward slash keys... WHY?! I suspect Microsoft is behind that.

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  • 10
    Errr..... that's not a forward slash....
  • 1
    Cyrillic? oh well might be because of the region where your keyboard is from.
  • 5
    That's a back slash key, if you hold shift and press it, it gives you the "pipe" character, most if not all keyboards will have that key.
  • 20
    You've just revealed 2 things... 1) you've never typed a path in Windows and 2) you've never piped a command in bash. Do you even code, bro? 😝

    Or you might be a Russian troll and we're all your victims.
  • 7
    He is referring to the button placement, that could have been somewhere else instead of cutting half of the shift button size.
  • 2
    @illusion466 My MacBook Pro has the tilde (~) key in the same place.
  • 0
    OR WHAT MATE?!?
  • 0
    @Boyski33 @coffeeandhate My Lenovo x1 has the tilda next to my arrow keys. It bothers me a lot
  • 0
    Backslash or whatever, I have the same key next to the Enter key. So I have one of each key except for the slash and obviously shift and ctrl. Let alone the button placement, why do they have to sacrifice the shift key for this?
  • 0
    @illusion466 The European standard kayboard has a rectangular Enter and the left shift is wider. Not this nonsense.
  • 1
    I've got a key with <> in that place and I'm happy about it.
  • 0
    @boyski33 Actually not! The Scandinavian standard has the backslash key right next to the shift key as seen on the picture. I can't live with it anywhere else.. Scandinavia is wierd, I guess
  • 0
    Can we have a picture of your entire keyboard? Just curious.
  • 2
    It's UK layout (with inverted L-shaped enter key) that is also used in some European contries. In US layout we have rectangular enter and '| \' key is placed above the enter key.

    UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
  • 0
    Yiu need the backslashes for masquerading special chars
    Eg. You want to search and replace in vim with default delimiters:

    :%s/\/home\/user1/\/usr\/home\/user2/g
    Replace /home/user1 with /usr/home/user2 in the whole document

    You could have more complex examples, but you get the thing.
  • 0
    @Eariel You've got one key with both < and >? Never seen that before. I guess maybe it's handy for typing XML/HTML? I don't know if I could get used to that…
  • 1
    @CrankyOldDev I'm aware of its usage, but it's beyond me why I'd need two of those: one next to the left shift and another next to the Enter. And I said I think MS is behind that because Windows paths use backslashes. No need to get hostile.

    p.s. it's Bulgaria
  • 1
    @devios1, yeah, I use XML a lot (Android device) so it comes pretty handy. It's the Latin American keyboard layout.
  • 0
    @boyski33 I didn't think I was hostile. Certainly didn't mean to be. A combination of the image and the mistaken reference to "forward slash" made me think you didn't know what the characters were.
  • 1
    @boyski33 I bet the other is a forward slash.

    Show the full keyboard, I find it highly unlikely you have two backslashes.
  • 2
    @neodite You will most likely lose your bet.

    Here is a picture found on google with a similar layout keyboard:

    https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/...
  • 0
    @CrankyOldDev I always mix them up because except for windows I havent seen it anywhere and since I almost never hear the term forward slash I assumed it's this kind of slash. It's confusing.
  • 1
    In case you're still wondering after all these years, this is the ISO layout as opposed to the American ANSI layout.
  • 8
    Are your fingers so thick?
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