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?

  • @SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
    17•3 months ago

    Personally since I use touch typing being able to hit ctrl-c,v without looking works best for me. Anything else would require me to shift my hands too far away from the “home row” and slow me down.

          • @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
            8•3 months ago

            Before millennials, touch typing was a specialized skill on your resume, since “typing” would include hunt and peck, which itself is still fairly common among earlier generations.

            • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)English
              6•3 months ago

              I’m a millennial and I learned touch typing on a typewriter in school, specifically for my resume.

              Wow, that did not feel great to say.

              • @dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3•3 months ago

                Are you an older millennial? I’m a younger millennial and I’ve never even so much as seen a typewriter in person let alone typed on one. We were taught to type in school though on computers.

                • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)English
                  2•3 months ago

                  First, fuck you, hahahha, second, yes. Born in 1981, which AFAIK is the literal dividing year between Gen-X/Millennial.

              • @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
                3•3 months ago

                I’m a bit younger but remember typewriters being around. Did your school have the old non-electric kind or the kind with a plastic box? The electric ones were nice because the keys were easier to press and they could buffer the input to avoid jams. The really nice ones let you type a full line on a digital display before printing.

                • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)English
                  2•3 months ago

                  99% sure it was a plastic box, but this would be like 400 years ago, so I can’t recall exactly, haha. I definitely don’t remember ours having the digital display. We actually went straight to computers the next year, which obviously was much nicer.