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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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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V have been so burned into my muscle memory, relearning to use just a single dedicated button might actually be more trouble for me than just using the standard hotkeys.

[-] person420@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago

I have a row of macro keys on my keyboard on the left side. I thought I'd be smart and add copy and paste macros (that were near mm's away from Ctrl) and I never used them.

Muscle memory would always take over and I'd Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. I realized it would take more work to train myself to use the macro keys (and God forbid I used a different keyboard) than I was saving not having to press a key combination

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

That's the first thing i learned using computers, and not something i'll ever forget.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 3 months ago

I wish Ctrl + C wasn't the break command in Linux so I could map copy to that. It's harder to presa Ctrl + Shift + C

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe if you weren’t so floppy about it

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