I was just reading this thread… https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

…and it got me thinking about something that I’ve wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I’d love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they’re not exactly comfortable. I’d rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

  • Sneezycat
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    43 months ago

    Other than already working like that for accents in spanish keyboards, what is with the euro combination??? C + =?? What kind of unhinged British person are you, not to think it would be like the pound, E + - ??

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      43 months ago

      To be fair, you can use E= to get a euro symbol as well, I just found that C= demonstrated the whole drawing characters from other characters very well.

      As for the L- for £ that came from a different page titled “Compose Key Sequences” at a personal website, but when I look at the main page of the site it seems like mostly refer to HTML, with little explanation.

      The Swedish keyboard works the same as the Spannish kayboard with regards to accent modifiers.

      Fun fact, at one of my earlier jobs we aquired several international offices and didn’t have any corporate laptops with a Spannish keyboard, so I was asked to modify a laptop and make a spannish keyboard using Dymotape.

      It worked well enough, but we never ended up using the concept.

      At the same job, I got to type on the following keyboard layouts:

      Swedish/Finnish

      Danish

      Norwegian

      UK

      US

      German

      French

      Turkish

      Japanese

      Dutch

      Spannish

      I am probably forgetting one, it was almost ten years ago…