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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (9 children)

no, never. 34 keys is all you ever need1000000967

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Could you screenshot this again but showing what each key maps too?

Christian Seleg (not sure if spelt correctly, but the Apollo for Reddit dev) has a recent video on his channel about making a keyboard very similar to this shape and it looked really cool but again couldn’t quite understand what key each is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Mechanical keyboards like this are often fully programmable. I have a ZSA Moonlander and routinely modify the function of each and every key. Everyone’s workflow is a little different, for example I have a Del Word key which deletes entire words, but is really a macro of the OS key + Backspace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Very hard to imagine after 30 years of qwerty muscle memory. Not sure I could change even if I tried.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It’s definitely a challenge. Colemak has a progression called Tarmak which transitions you to Colemak by changing only a few letters at a time. I did it over the course of about a month.

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