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?

    • @Zidane
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      31 month ago

      Never heard it called touch typing before… Always just “typing”

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        Before millennials, touch typing was a specialized skill on your resume, since “typing” would include hunt and peck, which itself is still fairly common among earlier generations.

        • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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          61 month ago

          I’m a millennial and I learned touch typing on a typewriter in school, specifically for my resume.

          Wow, that did not feel great to say.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month ago

            I’m a bit younger but remember typewriters being around. Did your school have the old non-electric kind or the kind with a plastic box? The electric ones were nice because the keys were easier to press and they could buffer the input to avoid jams. The really nice ones let you type a full line on a digital display before printing.

            • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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              21 month ago

              99% sure it was a plastic box, but this would be like 400 years ago, so I can’t recall exactly, haha. I definitely don’t remember ours having the digital display. We actually went straight to computers the next year, which obviously was much nicer.

          • @dingus
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            1 month ago

            Are you an older millennial? I’m a younger millennial and I’ve never even so much as seen a typewriter in person let alone typed on one. We were taught to type in school though on computers.

            • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)
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              21 month ago

              First, fuck you, hahahha, second, yes. Born in 1981, which AFAIK is the literal dividing year between Gen-X/Millennial.

              • @dingus
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                21 month ago

                Ah yeah ok haha. The generation divides are only so accurate as to life experiences!!