578

Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] MudMan@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago

I don't remember the last time I pressed the "right click" contextual menu key, so honestly it's not like it'll be too annoying. Unless they do replace an actually useful key, at which point I guess the people making "make Windows actually work good" apps will get to live another year.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 years ago

I pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It's a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Fair enough. Alt used to be that before we decided to have a button to annoyingly pop up the menu strip. And there's still Alt Gr for that in full sized keyboards if we want to go back that way.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

Alt Gr is something else. Non-english keyboards use it all day every day for typing their charactersets.

It could probably replace the right OS key, though.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah and even on many english keyboards it is used to show special characters

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Been coding in vim for decades without that key

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

That's the key I use as a compose key

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 years ago

I use it as a Compose key with WinCompose.

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I use the app/menu all the time in Excel.

this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
578 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

73567 readers
3121 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS