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submitted 1 year ago by Lianrepl@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Specifically thinking of stuff that make your life better in the long run but all kinds of answers are welcome!

I've recently learnt about lifetraps and it's made a huge positive impact on how I view myself and my relationships

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[-] lemmybenny@lemmy.world 135 points 1 year ago

Control + Backspace deletes entire words rather than individual characters

[-] SevFTW@feddit.de 50 points 1 year ago

Control + Arrows also moves your text cursor by whole words. Combine it with shift and you can easily select a bunch of text without the mouse.

Another one that took me far too long to learn: Shift + Tab will do the same thing as tab (next element) in reverse

[-] minthenry@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

Also shift+pos1/end selects whole rows or parts from where the cursor is.

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Learn vim and you can completely forget this information

[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 7 points 1 year ago

And once you do, you can use them in bash by running (or adding to your ~/.bashrc) set -o vi!

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 1 year ago

It's the Home/End keys on US keyboard layouts. I use them all the time when coding.

[-] HeneryHawk@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

CTRL + Shift + Home/End will select all to the start/end of a document. I use that one a lot

[-] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

similarly if you're using arrow keys to move the cursor where you want, ctrl + arrow key moves you along word by word instead of letter by letter.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

In bash, it's alt-backspace πŸ‘

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Ctrl + shift + v to strip formatting before pasting (can be application dependent)

[-] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

think it’s cmd+alt+shift+v for our mac friends

[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

For a key-combo I've found handy:

shift + ins = a more general paste-command. While ctrl + v works in most Microsoft-contexts, shift + ins seems to work both in MS Windows, Command prompt, Linux and several other systems.

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