{"id":32639,"date":"2021-05-28T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32639"},"modified":"2021-05-28T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:30:49","slug":"figma-and-the-num-lock-quasimode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/28\/figma-and-the-num-lock-quasimode\/","title":{"rendered":"Figma and the Num Lock Quasimode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/figmadesign\/status\/1395445717783613443\">Figma<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/figmadesign\/status\/1395445717783613443\">\n<p>In short, pressing Shift+2 using one key worked, but pressing Shift+2 using the numeric keypad key didn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the bug only happened on Windows, and not on a Mac.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Pressing Num Lock over and over again to switch between the modes would be slow, infuriating, and flow-reducing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The solution: you could hold Shift and press the arrow\/numeric key to quickly reverse its current mode.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The shortcut from MS-DOS was preserved in code through all the versions of Windows, from 1.0 all the way to 10!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figma: In short, pressing Shift+2 using one key worked, but pressing Shift+2 using the numeric keypad key didn&rsquo;t. Curiously, the bug only happened on Windows, and not on a Mac. [&#8230;] Pressing Num Lock over and over again to switch between the modes would be slow, infuriating, and flow-reducing&#8230; [&#8230;] The solution: you could hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-05-28T21:30:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"038f738a-eda0-45e4-9b27-1c3b9a35caa9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-28T21:30:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AA49ziu2gReSbJxw7mjXKqQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1345,295,697,423,125,71,219],"class_list":["post-32639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-figma","tag-history","tag-ibm","tag-keyboard","tag-keyboardshortcuts","tag-programming","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32640,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32639\/revisions\/32640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}