Editing Mouse keys (section)

{{Short description|Feature of some graphical user interfaces that uses the keyboard as a pointing device}}
'''Mouse keys''' is a feature of some [[graphical user interface]]s that uses the keyboard (especially [[numeric keypad]]) as a [[pointing device]] (usually replacing a [[Computer mouse|mouse]]). Its roots lie in the earliest days of [[visual editor]]s when line and column navigation was controlled with [[arrow keys]].
Today, mouse keys usually refers to the numeric keypad layout standardized with the introduction of the [[X Window System]] in 1984.<ref>[https://www.xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf The X Keyboard Extension: Protocol Specification]</ref><ref>[https://www.xfree86.org/current/XKBlib.pdf The X Keyboard Extension: Library Specification]</ref>