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I don’t get the fascination with macOS keyboard shortcuts, people always mention the copy thing that you did and it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.

ucosty 6y ago
It feels a lot more ergonomic, especially if you switch between cli and gui applications a lot. It's one thing I really miss when going from my work Mac to my home Linux machine.
stu2b50 6y ago
There's two parts to it. One, that macOS has a proscribed way for apps to compose command, ctrl, and option for shortcuts, whereas it's basically the Wild West on the other platforms. So it's just generally nice on macOS. The terminal thing is, in the grand scheme of things, minor, but a very nice QoL. It's annoying to mode shift from ctrl as a desktop environment modifier to ctrl as a unix modifier. Especially when ctrl+c can be quite a bit more destructive than "copy". It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere.
- kitsunesoba 6y ago
  > It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere. Yeah, I would sum it up as reducing the number of discrete shortcut sets to remember to the bare minimum, instead lumping as much as possible into the global set.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > One, that macOS has a proscribed way for apps Presumably, “prescribed”; “proscribed” is essentially the opposite.
GongOfFour 6y ago
Take your pinky and touch it to the tip of every other finger on the same hand, now take your thumb and do the same. Which is easier? This is the difference between a command based shortcuts and ctrl based shortcuts (unless you are using a non-standard ctrl key). There is a reason why people get "emacs pinky" but no-one gets "mac thumb".
rtpg 6y ago
Here's why it's, objectively, the best thing: - Super key isn't wasted on window management (a thing you basically are doing a handful of time per sessions). A nicely-placed key is used for things that you do a lot! - No "oh wow the start menu showed up randomly" BS when you fat finger. - Control commands "just work" everywhere! Terminal usage is of course easy, but ctrl-a/ctrl-e also work for cursor movement. You get great text maninpulation! Seriously, being able to move the cursor around in any text field is a game changer. - Isolation of most system-level operations to that key mean that you are unlikely to hit weird conflicts. And if you fat-finger you can Super-Z out of your issue most of the time.

ucosty 6y ago

It feels a lot more ergonomic, especially if you switch between cli and gui applications a lot. It's one thing I really miss when going from my work Mac to my home Linux machine.

stu2b50 6y ago

There's two parts to it. One, that macOS has a proscribed way for apps to compose command, ctrl, and option for shortcuts, whereas it's basically the Wild West on the other platforms. So it's just generally nice on macOS. The terminal thing is, in the grand scheme of things, minor, but a very nice QoL. It's annoying to mode shift from ctrl as a desktop environment modifier to ctrl as a unix modifier. Especially when ctrl+c can be quite a bit more destructive than "copy". It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere.

kitsunesoba 6y ago
> It's not like it's impossible to adjust, but it's very nice to have command+c do the same thing, everywhere. Yeah, I would sum it up as reducing the number of discrete shortcut sets to remember to the bare minimum, instead lumping as much as possible into the global set.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> One, that macOS has a proscribed way for apps Presumably, “prescribed”; “proscribed” is essentially the opposite.

GongOfFour 6y ago

Take your pinky and touch it to the tip of every other finger on the same hand, now take your thumb and do the same. Which is easier? This is the difference between a command based shortcuts and ctrl based shortcuts (unless you are using a non-standard ctrl key). There is a reason why people get "emacs pinky" but no-one gets "mac thumb".

rtpg 6y ago

Here's why it's, objectively, the best thing: - Super key isn't wasted on window management (a thing you basically are doing a handful of time per sessions). A nicely-placed key is used for things that you do a lot! - No "oh wow the start menu showed up randomly" BS when you fat finger. - Control commands "just work" everywhere! Terminal usage is of course easy, but ctrl-a/ctrl-e also work for cursor movement. You get great text maninpulation! Seriously, being able to move the cursor around in any text field is a game changer. - Isolation of most system-level operations to that key mean that you are unlikely to hit weird conflicts. And if you fat-finger you can Super-Z out of your issue most of the time.