The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever 506
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.
Re:Huh? What? (Score:5, Insightful)
I agree. Is this just a bad /. post, or literally the worst /. post ever?
... Keyboard shortcuts are news? (Score:5, Insightful)
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE NOT NEWS.
How did this pass moderation? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Huh? What? (Score:4, Insightful)
Thirded. No clue what this is actually about.
And... (Score:5, 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?
Re:How did this pass moderation? (Score:5, Insightful)
My UID is lower, and this is indeed the lowest of the low.
Re:Huh? What? (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.
Re:Huh? What? (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.
Seriously? (Score:5, 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...
I thought /. stories were moderated (Score:5, Insightful)
But apparently any idiot with a keyboard can get on the front page.
Re:... Keyboard shortcuts are news? (Score:2, Insightful)
I want to shake my fist in frustration over the quality control here but I find myself thinking "damn, how did I go this long without knowing that?".
So thanks and all but...damn. Someone go build a Beowulf cluster out of gameboys so we can get some good news back.
Re:Huh? What? (Score:5, 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.
Re: Huh? What? (Score:2, Insightful)
The shitty part is, if you're in incognito mode and you accidentally close a porno tab and then change your mind, thinking it deserved another shot, you're SOL - Ctrl+Shift+T does nothing in incognito mode.
noobs of the 'net (Score:4, Insightful)
I think I'll make a feature request for the next Firefox, to rename the Recently Closed Tabs menu to Melia Robinson's Trick Parlor.
Some people are just idiots. And the Sun is shining again today.
Re:Huh? What? (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.
Re: Huh? What? (Score:5, 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.
Re: Middle click can do the same on Firefox (Score:4, Insightful)
Wait a minute. You are saying you have an "area right next to the rightmost tab"? How do you do that?
Re:Huh? What? (Score:5, Insightful)
The quality of this article did make me suspect that, yes.