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Given that holding the button still causes the Mac to shutdown... this seems awful dangerous. I could easily see myself holding the button to delete a few lines of text and then * oops *.

As trapexit mentioned, fn+Delete already does this, an can easily be entered without removing your hands from the main keyboard area.

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I never find myself actually using that shortcut, despite knowing it exists. I end up repositioning the cursor, then backspacing. Whereas the power key is in the same muscle-memory space as my external keyboard's Delete key, which I use all the time.

It is a little dangerous, yeah, but worth it in my opinion for a nice shortcut. At least key repeat is off, so you have no reason to hold down the key.

It might've been a better idea to remap the eject button on CD drive less MacBooks. But it would still be weird, I'd just use fn + delete.

That would be the power button. :)

What eject button? Why would Apple put an eject button on a laptop with nothing to eject? Fucking retard.

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In your case: Apple wouldn't put an eject button on a laptop with nothing to eject.

If they remapped it, it wouldn't be an eject button anymore, would it? Then you would have no reason to be uncivil.

Me, I'm fine with fn+Delete.

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