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[–] [email protected] 38 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Wow. This really confused me. The initial ^s was fine - he was putting his terminal on hold. And then he tried to background the job, which didn't make sense after he locked to tty, and it went downhill from there.

Until ctrl-alt-del when I realized he was running Windows, and then it all made sense -- especially about why she'd want to have a talk with him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Now try working with all three big platforms daily, throw in some Command keys, and I recently realized I’m losing my grip on shortcuts, and my sanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, I feel you. I'm in that space now and it's uncomfortable, and I'm always keeping an eye out for a solution.

I have:

  • the WM, with its key bindings, running
  • the terminal, with its (mercifully few) key bindings, running
  • tmux, with a bunch of key bindings, running
  • helix, with a vast number of key bindings.

And that's ignoring readline, which Helix uses sometimes and the shell always does.

The nesting is admittedly absurd. The thing keeping me sane is that I'm strict about keeping the bindings the same, varying only by command key. Mod4-l focuses right in the WM, long-press-h-l (QMK yay) focuses right one pane in tmux. I haven't rebound Helix pane movement, but I rarely use windows in Helix.

But I still get befuddled sometimes. Too many nested panels and layers of key bindings. I need to find a solution for it, eventually.

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