Pause / Break
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As the others have said it's a holdover from the olden days. I remapped it to toggle number pad mode on my laptop-like keyboard because I've remapped the numlock key to be the Home key. Actually I've remapped pretty much all the control type keys in a very geeky manner based on analyzing which keys I use most and where they are on the keyboard. When someone else tries to use my keyboard they tend to give up in frustration pretty quickly.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
I'd hate your keyboard. How else am I supposed to pause fortran screen output without writing something in there? I'd never know how close to the convergence tolerance I am at any point in time with a specific solution. The key that I've forgotten about completely is SysRq. Not even a foggiest of notions of what it does anymore.
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I have this great key on on my keyboard. It sits way on the upper right. It says 'Pause/Break'. Does anybody know what its for?
The break key also comes in handy when you want to stop building your project/solution in Visual Studio. Just press CTRL+Break, and the build will stop. Sometimes a build may take too long, especially when there is also code analysis running. If you realize, you don't actually need to build, you can use this key combination to stop the build.
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I have this great key on on my keyboard. It sits way on the upper right. It says 'Pause/Break'. Does anybody know what its for?
This break key also comes in handy when you want to stop building your project/solution in Visual Studio. Just press CTRL+Break, and the build will stop. Sometimes a build may take too long, especially when there is also code analysis running. If you realize, you don't actually need to build, you can use this key combination to stop the build.
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I have this great key on on my keyboard. It sits way on the upper right. It says 'Pause/Break'. Does anybody know what its for?
I've mapped it to the Play / Pause command in Winamp.