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> The F-keys are still widely used people and make sense to be their own key for a LOT That varies quite a bit between individuals. Doing native mobile dev wor
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
> The F-keys are still widely used people and make sense to be their own key for a LOT
That varies quite a bit between individuals. Doing native mobile dev work under macOS, I can count the number of times I need an F-key in an entire month on a single hand. They don't get used anywhere near enough to need their own row.
That said the presence of an F-row doesn't bother me — it's not as if they're hurting anything by being there — but there are no keyboards with both an F-row and my preferred layout (the HHKB/Tsangan variant of 60%) so few of my keyboards have F-rows.
- tkk23 4y agoHow do you debug? Do you entirely use the mouse to step through code?
- kitsunesoba 4y agoI'm not frequently stepping through code, so yes. Pause/Continue/Continue to Current Line have more maclike mnemonic key shortcuts and if I start using the others more, they can be remapped to more maclike shortcuts pretty easily.
- Descon 4y agoShift + f6 in jetbrains products to rename is one of my most used shortcuts.
- simooooo 4y agoI’ve always had friction renaming files in rider. Never would have thought of that shortcut
- sylens 4y agoFor me, it's less about the function keys and more about separating Escape from the ~/` key. I tried a 65% board once and having to use a modifier key to access those symbols drove me nuts.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoThis is one of the reasons why I like the HHKB/Tsangan variant of ANSI 60/65% in particular: it has a dedicated ~/` key[0]. [0]: https://hhkb.io/layout/ https://hhkb.io/layout/