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by carey 2367 days ago
Are you asking why it’s F3 as opposed to some other key? Because that would be from the IBM CUA standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access.
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ink_13 2366 days ago
Yep, that's what I was thinking of. F5 for refresh is another artifact from that time.
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