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>This leads to bad typing practices like contorting your left hand to type both 'ctrl' (now mapped to 'caps lock') and 'x' with the same hand. wait, how else a
by _dain_ 3y ago
>This leads to bad typing practices like contorting your left hand to type both 'ctrl' (now mapped to 'caps lock') and 'x' with the same hand.
wait, how else are you meant to type CTRL-X?
- Jtsummers 3y agoRight pinky control key and left middle finger `x`. Or switch to Dvorak and it's easiest to use left pinky on control and right index finger on `x` (`x` on Dvorak is the same as `b` in QWERTY). I actually found most of the popular chords were much easier to type when I switched to Dvorak.
- susam 3y agoRight little finger on 'ctrl'. Left little finger on 'x'. With proper touch-typing, that's how we type shift+x too, i.e., right little finger on 'shift' and left little finger on 'x'.
- _dain_ 3y agopeople actually use right-ctrl and right-shift? i forgot those keys even existed. but why not just use the left-ctrl? it's as easy as can be: pinky on ctrl, index finger on x, they're the perfect distance apart, you press them in one fluid movement. maybe I find this easier because I'm left handed?
- cratermoon 3y agoMy laptop keyboards don't have them, so even though I learned to use them, I'm picking up bad habits.