I was just reading this thread… https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

…and it got me thinking about something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I’d love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they’re not exactly comfortable. I’d rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    3 months ago

    Thanks.

    Surely you don’t change A-Z though? That seems like it would be unworkable.

    Also, never knew OS Key + Backspace would delete a word. Thanks for sharing.

    • 667English
      2·
      3 months ago

      It’s totally workable, there’s significant movements to get away from the QWERTY layout and at least several alternative keyboard layouts. Personally I got on board with Colemak-DH; there’s also Dvorak, AZERTY, Workman, and so on.

      Learning a new layout comes at a short term price if all you’ve ever used is QWERTY, but there are long-term gains to reductions of RSI, and typing comfort.

      The OS key differs between OSs. Macs are Command+Backspace and I believe windows is Ctrl+Backspace.