Remove (button)

Delete key on German and Austrian keyboards

The delete key (short Delete button and delete button ; English: Del key, for, delete ') on the standard PC keyboard , often via the arrow keys arranged clears when editing fonts (text) the character at the current cursor position is moved all subsequent characters one position per press to the left (also "feedforward cancellation") and, unlike the rear erase key (also called "reverse deletion"), which deletes the left of the cursor.

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On English keyboards, the Delete key is how Swiss keyboards with "Delete" or "Del" (delete) labeled. Confusingly, the back-erase key on English Apple computers and notebooks was sometimes also labeled with “Del”, and only the traditional position at the top right corner of the keypad indicated the back-erase function that is typical for that.

The ASCII control character value for the Delete key is 0x7F (0127).

Many operating systems and programs interpret the Delete key as a general command for deleting of data .

The key combination Strg + Alt+ Entf(" clamp grip ") triggers an important system command in many operating systems:

Under Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10 you open such a dialog that you can use to a. Lock the computer, log off, switch users or open the task manager .
With Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP you open the task manager
Under Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and ME you get a dialog for closing applications (pressing it again restarts the computer)
The computer is restarted under Unix , MS-DOS and Windows versions 1.x, 2.x and 3.x (“software reset ”, “ warm start ”).
Under OS / 2 a so-called "system shutdown" is carried out with Ctrl + Alt + Del, ie the computer is shut down .
The computer shutdown dialog is opened under most of the graphic interfaces in Unix-like operating systems . In general, however, there is a whole series of "monkey grips", see the magic S-Abf key .

Buttons on a IBM / Windows - Keyboard ( German / Austrian occupation "T1")
Esc	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7	F8	F9	F10	F11	F12	Print S-Dep	roll	pause break	Numeric keypad :

													Insert	Pos1	Image ↑	Num	/	*	-
													Dist	The End	Image ↓	7th	8th	9	+
																4th	5	6th	+
														↑		1	2	3	Enter
													←	↓	→	0		,	Enter

Individual evidence

↑ Delete key , entry in Duden (accessed on August 18, 2014) +

[1] Delete key , entry in Duden (accessed on August 18, 2014) +