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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 1 month ago (9 children)

no, never. 34 keys is all you ever need1000000967

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 1 month 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.

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