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by gruez 3688 days ago
>I have seen laptops with the backspace key physically ripped out just to prevent people from accidentally triggering its back-button behavior.

how would you correct mistakes? with the delete button?

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Yep, delete button or else just use the default behavior of highlighting the full contents of the field to be changed. Mind you, these were dedicated machines that were specifically used for this one purpose and not something anyone would be using for, say, writing emails.
ctrl+x