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submitted 2 months ago by AstralPath@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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?

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[-] 0laura@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

no, never. 34 keys is all you ever need1000000967

Could you screenshot this again but showing what each key maps too?

Christian Seleg (not sure if spelt correctly, but the Apollo for Reddit dev) has a recent video on his channel about making a keyboard very similar to this shape and it looked really cool but again couldn’t quite understand what key each is.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 6 points 2 months ago

Mechanical keyboards like this are often fully programmable. I have a ZSA Moonlander and routinely modify the function of each and every key. Everyone’s workflow is a little different, for example I have a Del Word key which deletes entire words, but is really a macro of the OS key + Backspace.

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.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 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.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Very hard to imagine after 30 years of qwerty muscle memory. Not sure I could change even if I tried.

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 months ago

It’s definitely a challenge. Colemak has a progression called Tarmak which transitions you to Colemak by changing only a few letters at a time. I did it over the course of about a month.

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