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I train college students as part of my job, and there are definitely some power users, but I am generalizing. What I am thinking of is, someone who was a progr

I train college students as part of my job, and there are definitely some power users, but I am generalizing. What I am thinking of is, someone who was a programmer ~20 years ago would probably have a lot of *NIX, IT, and networking skills that you could take for granted, whereas today there are coders from many different backgrounds (which isn't necessarily bad). I've met a surprising number of 20-year-olds who spend their entire day in Visual Studio Code and don't know that Home/End go to the beginning and end of the line. Or they don't know how DNS works. Just two examples off the top of my head.

p_l 6y ago
When it comes to home/end, that might be because a lot of the computers they interact with simply don't have those keys, or they are on Mac and the keys go to start/end of document, etc etc.
- vehemenz 6y ago
  Fair enough; but they wouldn't know the Function key equivalent either.
  - p_l 6y ago
    Many common shortcuts are hamstrung these days by having keys disappear from keyboards, or things like every Chrome-based app on MacOS doing input editing wrong, and so on.