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Obscure button tier list (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

If you have "Help" instead of "Ins", replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come.

OC, feel free to share.

EDIT; Home is now G-od tier. I didn't know it would go to the beginning of a line, I always used macros "lol".

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

For those learning how good Home is, wait until you try CTRL + Home. Start of the file.

Also see: CTRL + End

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Exactly. I feel that people shaming all these extra buttons must have been raised in the era of smartphones. They are all so useful. Well, except Insert. I still don't get the point.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert ist like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, but it works in terminals too. Very useful.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds why more awkward to type than CTRL+C

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ctrl-C halts whatever is running in your terminal though. To be fair, I've always just used Ctrl-Shift-C because thats closer to my hand.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I make a point of using smartphone onscreen keyboards that have these keys. They are too useful!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hacker's Keyboard on Android and I created a custom Squeekboard layout for my Linux phone.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

ins switches between inserting and replacing text, very useful.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

For when the text you want to replace is exactly as long as the text you want to replace it with? Wouldn't you have to toggle it mid typing otherwise? Seems more useful to just shift+ctrl+right arrow and then type.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I find inserting text to be extremely confusing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I personally never find myself needed that, I just selected and overwrite instead.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Or they vim bindings wherever possible, then those keys are a bit redundant and harder to reach

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