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

submitted 2 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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[-] sep@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Having keys to the left of ctrl is a fucking mess! Ine of my kids have a gaming keyboard with a extra column of keys there and it is a pain to use.

What should happen, is move capslock to the locks row on the tip right side. And give us a new meta key there instead! That would be a win-win

[-] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i rebind caps lock to control on all my machines.

it's much easier to hit comfortably in that location making it a better meta key, usually stupidly big on most keyboards making it even better, and i literally never need caps lock, ever.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes same, been doing that for 2 decades. About time keybords learned that.

[-] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it's where CTRL was originally!

https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:IBM_XT_top.JPG early IBM as an example

why they gave such valuable real estate to caps lock of all keys i will never understand

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