Am I the only one that thinks we should have dedicated buttons for copy/paste on keyboards? - eviltoast

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?

  • ArtieShaw@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I like the mnemonics of c (copy), v (get in there), x (snip-snip), and z (bad idea) as much as I like the similar ones for bold and italics.

    text you’ve already typed and change the format. Control (shift) + F3 used to do that in MS word. Highlight your text and Toggle Through The POSSIBILITIES.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Control (shift) + F3 used to do that in MS word.

      Yeah, so I’ve just been discovering after googling to see if anyone had asked before. Shame there’s no systemwide method though.