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Even when the Ins and Del are there, they're at the far right top of the keyboard, which requires moving the hand to reach them every time. It used to be less
by trinix912 1y ago
Even when the Ins and Del are there, they're at the far right top of the keyboard, which requires moving the hand to reach them every time.
It used to be less of a hassle when those shortcuts first appeared (with IBM CUA), as Ins/Del were just slightly above the arrow keys that you'd use to select the text prior to copying/cutting it anyways.
- cryptonector 1y agoOn my smaller keyboards Ins is never far from anywhere :) But also, I use sticky keys (the accessibility feature), so even on my larger keyboard I don't find moving my hand to reach the Ins key to be a problem. If I still had the real bad habit of long ago of using ulnar deviations to hit multiple keys together though, then the Ins key would probably hurt my hands, but then back then all typing hurt my hands so...
- amadeuspagel 1y agoIsn't it healthier to use keyboard shortcuts where the modifier key and the modified key use different hands?
- cryptonector 1y agoYes, but GP didn't imply that they would hit ctlr-Ins/shift-Ins with the right hand. GP complained that the right hand has to move a fair bit to reach Ins.