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> And what is that “Print Screen” key doing there?! > Stupid keys like Page Up, Scroll Lock, and Insert are gone. Surely I'm not the only person regularly usi

by walls 13y ago

> And what is that “Print Screen” key doing there?! > Stupid keys like Page Up, Scroll Lock, and Insert are gone. Surely I'm not the only person regularly using the "page" and "print screen" buttons?

Avshalom 13y ago
I don't use print screen much but I page the shit out things.
- tlarkworthy 13y ago
  print screen takes a screenshot (windows and linux, + ALT for current window only). I have met lots of programmers who didn't know it, and bless me when they discover it. I am on the edge of getting RSA and have replaced all my keyboards with ergonomic ones. This CODE keyboard is of no use to me.
agumonkey 13y ago
I was a heavy user of all the dimension keys: u|l|d|r arrows (with ctrl/shift to step) , page u|d, home(aka start) end. Never touched the mouse. Too far, not precise enough. One of the first thing you read while learning emacs/vim starts is leaving the arrows. The idea is that static~ wrists => more speed and less fatigue.[1] Then you'll wanna stop using anything more than 2 steps from the home row, meaning the other keys are also about to go away in your mind. I understand that this would cause a complete reshake of OS keyboard interfaces to adopt home-focused keybindings, but they aren't really necessary. [1] ironically this was the reason I dropped using the mouse for anything else than analogical input (say drawing) in the first place.
nhebb 13y ago
All the time, along with the arrow keys and numeric keypad. i hurt my shoulder once and had to type one-handed for a week. During that week the much hated caps lock key was a savior.
SkyMarshal 13y ago
Print Screen is the Magic SysReq Key [1] on keyboards without an actual SysReq key, for *nix systems at least. Maybe the author has only ever programmed on Windows machines, but he's not describing any kind of Coder's keyboard I'd ever use. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisub
eliasmacpherson 13y ago
I use them everyday, to suggest the apple laptop keyboard is superior is blasphemous. It's an abomination before god.

by walls 13y ago

Avshalom 13y ago

I don't use print screen much but I page the shit out things.

tlarkworthy 13y ago
print screen takes a screenshot (windows and linux, + ALT for current window only). I have met lots of programmers who didn't know it, and bless me when they discover it. I am on the edge of getting RSA and have replaced all my keyboards with ergonomic ones. This CODE keyboard is of no use to me.

agumonkey 13y ago

I was a heavy user of all the dimension keys: u|l|d|r arrows (with ctrl/shift to step) , page u|d, home(aka start) end. Never touched the mouse. Too far, not precise enough. One of the first thing you read while learning emacs/vim starts is leaving the arrows. The idea is that static~ wrists => more speed and less fatigue.[1] Then you'll wanna stop using anything more than 2 steps from the home row, meaning the other keys are also about to go away in your mind. I understand that this would cause a complete reshake of OS keyboard interfaces to adopt home-focused keybindings, but they aren't really necessary. [1] ironically this was the reason I dropped using the mouse for anything else than analogical input (say drawing) in the first place.

nhebb 13y ago

All the time, along with the arrow keys and numeric keypad. i hurt my shoulder once and had to type one-handed for a week. During that week the much hated caps lock key was a savior.

SkyMarshal 13y ago

Print Screen is the Magic SysReq Key [1] on keyboards without an actual SysReq key, for *nix systems at least. Maybe the author has only ever programmed on Windows machines, but he's not describing any kind of Coder's keyboard I'd ever use. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisub

eliasmacpherson 13y ago

I use them everyday, to suggest the apple laptop keyboard is superior is blasphemous. It's an abomination before god.