Template talk:Keyboard keys

message: X, I believe, recognizes a number of other modifiers not listed here: Super and Hyper seem to be omitted. -- Gwern (contribs) 17:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you please create articles for these keys? --Michaelas10 23:30, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't. Just don't know enough about them. I do know that Super and Hyper are descended from New England computer movements, like Hyper and Super were introduced by the space-cadet keyboard for Lisp machines, but that's about it. --Gwern (contribs) 03:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't add non-linked text or redlinks to the template, that's why I created pages about 4 missing keys. Do you have any good source of information about these keys? --Michaelas10 08:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: /me nudges Michaelas to the linked pages and their links. --Gwern  (contribs) 16:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Super is the Windows key. I added this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.79.178.42 (talk) 22:05, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other modifiers

message: A link to X key was added by Beland in 2009, but the X key article itself was proposed for deletion, and was eventually deleted by Jac16888 in 2013.  I'm going to delete the remaining red link from the template.  50.181.30.121 (talk) 20:29, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  X key 

message: A link to Navigation key was added by Timelezz on December 15, but the article it linked to was then deleted by R'n'B on December 20.  I'm going to unWikify the remaining red link back to plain text.  50.181.30.121 (talk) 00:31, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navigation key 

message: This part of the template looks really strange to me. 
* Dead key is not a logical title for a topic heading, nothing sensible can be nested under it. It itself should be an item under 'Modifier keys'. It could argued that 'modifier' is ruled out because it is not used simultaneously with another key (as in  but it certainly modifies the following letter:  to prooduce . 
* Compose key is not a dead key any more than Caps Lock is. It is a kind of lock key in that it controls the following inputs until the desired character is produced: unlike the major lock keys it doesn't need to be released. 
So I propose (a) to remove , (b) to add dead key as an ordinary element of the Modifier line and (c) add Compose key to the 'Lock keys' line.  Does anyone have a convincing reason why not? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:22, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead key line 

message: In the template there is a slash between the Command key and the Windows key.
It is a common misconception that they are related, due to modern misuse of modifier keys (esp. the Ctrl key which is used nothing like it's purpose).
The Windows Key is mainly a re-branding of the Super key (as is said in the first paragraph of the Super key's article).
--GoodClover (talk) 15:40, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mix-up between Command key (Apple), Windows key and Super key. 

message: There are various standards such as ISO/IEC 9995 which detail keyboard layouts and how some modifier keys are used, such as the Shift key.
I think it would be good to have these on this either in a "standards" section or in the current "concepts" section.
--GoodClover (talk) 15:45, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add "standards" section.