Do you "delete" or "backspace"?

#keyboard

New: Nuphy

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Old: Lenovo

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It's interesting to observe how convenience continues to shape our behavior. Before, when I used my old and faithful Lenovo standard US 101-key keyboard, I used the larger backspace key almost exclusively to delete something backwardly when editing. It is easy to reach, sitting at the top right corner of the main region of the keyboard, so it practically screams "press me, press me"!

Now, I have warmed up to my new Nuphy Air75 (mechanical wireless multi-device keyboard), which has the delete key sitting at the top right corder of the entire keyboard. It occupies one of the three top spots (the other two being the space key and the top-left escape key), so as far as access goes, it wins over the backspace key, which is right under the screenshot key and the scroll key. For numerous times, I wanted to backspace but found the cross-hair cursor on my screen, and realized I had accidentally press the screenshot key again. This conditioning has changed my habit over a few weeks. Besides it being more accessible, I now find the delete key more straightforward in principle, as it deletes forward from the cursor, than the backspace key.

Of course, during typing and writing, the backspace key remains the go-to key for immediately deleting the last letter typed incorrectly. But, during editing or reviewing, the default action is to position the cursor before the bad letter and press delete.