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I love key cording but use it on actions I am likely to repeat thousands of times if not more. Yes, they are all inconsistent between systems but how many times

I love key cording but use it on actions I am likely to repeat thousands of times if not more. Yes, they are all inconsistent between systems but how many times do you switch systems? And even if that happens on a daily basis, say use one program from one system and another one from a different system, it is still a net gain to learn the shortcuts for things that are likely to be used a lot. I get tripped off a bit when switching keyboards, between desktop and laptop. Still, it is worth the effort IMO.

falcolas 7y ago
> how many times do you switch systems Daily. Am I ever thankful that VIM is (mostly) the same across OSes. :/ Work: OSx Play: Windows Hobby: OSx terminal (effectively Linux) The bigger problem for me is that muscle memory between OSes is broken by something as simple as "how to do I get to the head (or tail) of the current line I'm on?" On Windows, it's Home/End. OSx is Cmd+Left/Right. Terminal, it's Ctrl+A/E (or Home/End, sometimes).
- ryukafalz 7y ago
  > OSx is Cmd+Left/Right. Terminal, it's Ctrl+A/E It’s also Ctrl+A/E most places in macOS - they’re Emacs keybindings, and lots of those work systemwide in macOS.
- franga2000 7y ago
  Is Home/End not universal? Besides one very broken shell session to some old embedded device over serial over telnet, I've never seen it not work. Isn't that the entire point of those keys existing?
  - falcolas 7y ago
    Home, in a text entry box on OSX (including OSX native text editors), will take you (and your cursor) to the top of the document. End takes you to the bottom. On Windows, it takes you to the first character of the line you're currently working on.