whats the use of the scroll lock?

[flawless]

the only thing i use it for is a bind for xfire...

Scroll Lock + X for ingame chat i leik it :P

[Martin55]

The Scroll Lock key is a remnant from the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behaviour of the arrow keys. When the scroll lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor as usual. In this sense, Scroll Lock serves a similar purpose to Num Lock and Caps Lock: it enables a secondary function of a group of keys. Today, this particular use of Scroll Lock is rare. Only a few modern programs still honour this behaviour, such as Microsoft Excel (in the behaviour of arrows — when Scroll Lock is on, the selection does not move) and Lotus Notes. In modern GUI environments, scrolling is usually accomplished using other means such as scrollbars or scroll wheels. This is a defunct feature in almost all modern programs and operating systems.

[stylus]

GUI systems should be altered to take the Scroll Key as a signal that all arrow keys (or numpad arrows, depending on the settings) as being signals to scroll within the current scrollable object. even if you move on to something else. advantages? you could be typing in one window, and scroll around reading notes from another.

[lin robinson]

Now I suppose you're wondering what the "Break" key does.