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What's the key to the left of '1' called?

Started by BauerGL Dec 12, 2004 at 8:28 AM 11 replies 21.6k views

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Dec 12, 2004 at 8:28 AM

Hi, I recently finished creating a console, with the help of the article posted here a while ago. It works and everything but there is one thing I need help with. I'd like to have it so that the console is de/activated by using the key to the left of the 1 key. I think it's called the tilde key but I can't find any DIK_ value for it. Do you have any tips? :)

grekster

Dec 12, 2004 at 8:32 AM

The tilde key is this "~" IIRC. On American keyboards I believe it is next to the 1, on English keyboards it is next to the enter key with the # symbol.

Muhammad Haggag

Dec 12, 2004 at 8:33 AM

There has been a thread about this recently - I seem to recall it was DIK_GRAVE.

MauMan

Dec 12, 2004 at 8:34 AM

DIK_GRAVE

BauerGL

Dec 12, 2004 at 8:47 AM

Sweet, thank you very much! Strange name though. :)

darookie

Dec 12, 2004 at 9:04 AM

The name isn't strange at all. On some keyboards (like the UK keyboard on my laptop) the key next to the '1' is a french accent-grave, which might explain the name.

Dec 12, 2004 at 9:19 AM

The grave (`) mark is the actual key; a shift is required for the tilde (~).

BauerGL

Dec 12, 2004 at 10:31 AM

Hmm okey, well that makes sense then. However, I wonder why it's known as tilde in that case.

markr

Dec 12, 2004 at 10:32 AM

I have a UK keyboard, and it's a "backtick" ` and this: ¬

Tilde is on a totally different key on UK keyboards (along with the hash #)

Mark

Fruny

Dec 12, 2004 at 10:54 AM

On my FR keyboard, I've got a ² at the left of the 1 key.
The tilde ~ is in third-level shift on the 2 key and on shift ² (xmodmap settings)
The backtick ` is in third-level shift on the 7 key.
The negation ¬ is in third-level shift on the ² key (xmodmap settings)

Fascinating.

darookie

Dec 12, 2004 at 11:09 AM

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Original post by markr
I have a UK keyboard, and it's a "backtick" ` and this: ¬

Tilde is on a totally different key on UK keyboards (along with the hash #)

Mark

What's a backtick? I always thought it's the same as the grave?

Fruny

Dec 12, 2004 at 11:11 AM

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Original post by Anonymous Poster
It is extremely pointless because neither of those characters ever are by themselves.

` is used in shell scripts. The enclosed text is evaluated and the output is substituted to the original text.
~ is very commonly used in source code.

¬ and ² aren't commonly seen, for most programming languages limit themselves to ASCII source encoding.

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