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It still amazes me that people tolerate that as a substitute. It's a key combo that requires two hands, for what on a regular keyboard is one finger. Perhaps
by jasonkester 6y ago
It still amazes me that people tolerate that as a substitute.
It's a key combo that requires two hands, for what on a regular keyboard is one finger.
Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer?
- salttrail 6y agoright cmd + up arrow and you end up with free cofee-hand
- httpsterio 6y agoit dorsnt work with cmd
- Veen 6y agoIt does for me. I've always used ⌘+up and ⌘+down to go to the top and bottom of the page. After eight years of using Macs, I didn't even know you could use the function key as suggested above.
- sildur 6y agoThey don’t. A Starbucks cup is too heavy to hold it for a long period of time.
- andy_ppp 6y agoI'm tired just thinking about this.
- yolomcsuperswag 6y agoAccelerated scrolling makes the home key superfluous. Just scroll "fast".
- easygenes 6y agoYeah, unless the doc is dozens+ pages long. Say, a book on a single page. Then it’s real nice to have a key sequence to get around. Going to the start or end of a long document is an infrequent enough operation I think a two hand sequence is fine.
- raxxorrax 6y agoI use both home and end constantly while coding. Writing text not so much, but it still does happen. Sure, you could do without, but...
- Gracana 6y agoOn a mac you'd use Control-A and Control-E to navigate to the beginning and end of a line. IIRC Home and End navigate the document, not the line. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201236 https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201236
- raxxorrax 6y agoHm, that would indeed be an alternative. I never tried hooking up a (windows-) keyboard to a mac, but don't see why it shouldn't work. Question is if the software or editors support the key layout.
- smichel17 6y agoOn my old Dell xps 14 laptop, the function button was close to the arrow keys, making it very convenient to use one-handed. I actually preferred it to a separate home button, because, in a text box, I often want to jump to the start/end of a line and then move a word or two inward -- do-able using control+arrows. It was almost as good as vim, although of course I had to take my hand off the home row.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoImagine vim editing across all text fields in an OS. Would be glorious.
- evilduck 6y agomacOS has a lot of baked in emacs keybindings that work almost universally in text fields. Control-A: Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph. Control-E: Move to the end of a line or paragraph. Control-F: Move one character forward. Control-B: Move one character backward. Control-L: Center the cursor or selection in the visible area. Control-P: Move up one line. Control-N: Move down one line. Control-O: Insert a new line after the insertion point. Control-T: Swap the character behind the insertion point with the character in front of the insertion point.
- jen20 6y ago"Almost universally" even includes Electron apps, surprisingly!
- aglionby 6y agoHome and end are most useful for me when I'm writing or programming, so both of my hands are on the keyboard anyway. I think I actually find these key combos more useful than a dedicated home or end button, as I'd have to move my hands a lot further for those.
- qmmmur 6y agoPersonally, I don't get caught up on pressing two buttons on my keyboard at the same time in the circumstance I'm literally doing something else.
- OOPMan 6y agoWell, no. Mac people expect their Butler to carefully hold the coffee cup for them and tilt it so they can take a sip.
- IggleSniggle 6y agoMy butler chortled
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> Perhaps Mac people never hold a cup of coffee in their hand while using a computer? I mean, not while using the keyboard, no. Typing is a two-handed activity.