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Am I the only one that thinks we should have dedicated buttons for copy/paste on keyboards? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by AstralPath@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I don't know about that but I think we need two clipboards, standard. If we had the existing clipboard and a second with dedicated keys that would be very helpful.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 3 months ago

I love how the clipboard works on Android. It has a whole history you can copy a bunch of things and then select which instance you want to paste. I want that in Windows.

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You can do that in Windows and on some Linux distro, at least on KDE. It might be a setting you have to turn on. Hit windows key + v to choose what to paste

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

That's been implemented many times on the Mac and Windows and Linux. It's generally referred to as a "clipboard manager", if you want a search term.

I'd also add that emacs has its own (more sophisticated) system, the "kill ring", and I'm sure that vi has an analog of some sort.

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I recently switched to Linux and I miss Win+V a lot. I keep pressing it expecting something to happen out of habit

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I can do it on KDE!

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Did you install something else? I'm using mint and I installed a clipboard manager but I haven't been able to bind it to win+v and also it doesn't work as well as the windows implementation

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think it's just a vanilla option, I have KDE on endeavorOS. It's not quite as smooth as the windows implementation but it's really nice to have

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

in a hyprland config i used to use win+v had a clipboard history thing pop up wherever your cursor was

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

I only have windows at work. What does this do is it like a clipboard manager?

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, if you enable clipboard you can access it with that shortcut

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Linux has sort of two clipboards. There's the normal Ctrl-c/Ctrl-v one and also if you highlight a text you can paste that text using middle mouse button.

[-] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yes! I use those all the time. It needs to be standard.

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