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edgar-bonet opened this issue Mar 19, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #872
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Keyboard: incorrect use of the term “modifier” #871

edgar-bonet opened this issue Mar 19, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #872
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In the documentation of the Keyboard library, the page Keyboard Modifiers provides a good definition of a “modifier key”:

A modifier key is a special key on a computer keyboard that modifies the normal action of another key when the two are pressed in combination.

The page then lists “the definitions of the modifier keys”, namely a set of macros such as KEY_LEFT_CTRL, KEY_RIGHT_SHIFT, etc.

Although the first entries in this list are indeed modifier keys, most of the entries are not: KEY_UP_ARROW, KEY_BACKSPACE, KEY_TAB, KEY_PAGE_UP, KEY_F1, etc. This is both wrong and inconsistent with the definition provided in the same page.

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