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If only keyboards would have function keys for this purpose, named F1 to F10 for example, so any program could use them for their specific functions...
I remember those keyboard layout cutouts (were they called keyboard templates?) you got which you put on the keyboard with extra explanations of what each function key did in WordPerfect or Lotus or whatever.
I'm old.