“I didn’t know about this shortcut until recently.”

On his fascinating and long-running Windows dev blog The Old New Thing, Raymond Chen writes about the story of scrollbar right-click menus: Windows 2000 added a right-click menu to the scroll bar. This menu gave you four options that matched existing mouse operations, two operations that matched existing keyboard operations, and a new operation. The interesting new one is “Scroll Here”: You can right-click directly on the spot you want to scroll to, and then pick “Scroll Here”. This is much more convenient if you want to scroll a long distance, since you don’t have to grab the scroll bar thumb and then drag it all the way to where you want to go. You can just focus on where you want to go and not where you are coming from. I used this context menu a lot when I needed to jump long distances. […] An even-more-hidden shortcut was added at the same time: Holding Shift while clicking on the scroll bar jumps the thumb directly to the spot where you clicked. ¶ I didn’t know about this…