The case of the missing Tilde ~
I've been looking at Ruby on Rails recently following the book Rails for .Net developers. This has meant I've been working in a Windows 7 VM in my Mac Book Pro. (I use the excellent Parallels). At some point in the book I had to use the tilde (~) symbol but the life of me couldn't find it as the tilde (~) key produces a pipe |. My Web Search skills failed me and there seemed to be nothing on the Parallels site but eventually I discovered it. So for the benefit of the next person to search I'm going to document it here.
To type a tilde (~) in a windows 7 vm on parallels with a macbook pro you press:
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I do love my MacBook but the keyboard does drive me mad. It took me ages to find the # key under Win7 in parallels and OSX. There are far too many keys hidden behind keys. Bit of a UX nightmare tbh.
I still haven't found Pg up/ Pg down in Windows.
Ah :) Also known as 'the case of the differing Apple and Windows key layouts'. IIRC, that's the same key *positions* you use for a tilde in windows, but obviously the keys are labeled otherwise ;)
I found you can install
Mapping 0x0056 to Key `~ should do the work.
http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/
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