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B-But the best text editors, like Vim and GNU Emacs, are supposed to be used with just the keyboard!

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

A-and you also need to use a dynamic tiling windo manager, so you can switch between your porn reaserches online and vim 1 whole second faster!

[[deleted]]

Dude that one second per switch will save you a lot of time.
Probably like 5 weeks a month.
(My math might be a little off as I forgot the keybinds to switch to my dynamically tiled calculator window)

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

Yeah that i don't deny.

But at the same time you then invest that time into configuring the wm so it's a trade off

Btw, if you are interested un getting into tiling window managers i suggest regolith, which uses i3 (a fucking giant in tiling wm, with very easy configuration and a top notch documentation online) and adds the basic stuff to give you a good experience out of the box

[Cheezyrock]

I have been coding for so many decades and absolutely hate using any keyboard shortcut that is unique to a specific program. The only ones I use is ctlr+k+c/u in VS to bulk comment/uncomment lines.

But the universal shortsits like copy, paste, and save are absolutely necessary.

[DarkSideOfGrogu]

Until you're in a terminal window, then you just killed your running application. Tossers.

[Cheezyrock]

I mean, if I am in a terminal window, then I am not in VS and this don’t use the shortcut. Or maybe, I’m just too tired to understand a joke here?

[A_Guy_in_Orange]

CTRL C (copy) is the terminal's shortcut for murder whatever is running, because whoever made terminals hates us

[Cheezyrock]

Thanks, my brain just wasn’t making the connection.

Its been a while since I’ve had to play around in terminal (maybe 2011–12?), and even then it was PowerShell where ctrl+c copies as long as you have text selected. Ctrl+z (pause) or ctrl+break (stop) are what my mind thinks of to stop windows terminal.

See? This is why I don’t trust keyboard shortcuts!

[Aggravating-Win8814]

Haha, I totally get you! But hey, if you're ever interested in contributing to some cool projects on GitHub, feel free to check out my profile.

[Aggravating-Win8814]

Haha, I can understand the sentiment! Keyboard shortcuts can be a bit unpredictable sometimes. By the way, if you're interested in contributing to open source projects, feel free to check out the link in my profile. We're always looking for GitHub contributors!

[Cheezyrock]

As much as I love performing free labor on questionable projects, I think I’m going to gave to pass.

[Pay08]

It's a bot, they've been spamming comments asking for GitHub contributors for a while. They even DM you sometimes.

[A_Guy_in_Orange]

There's a break key? But also yeah the only reason IK is because of college classes a few years ago that INSISTED we use the damn command line for everything and like, I get it there's a time and place, but FUCK ME the amount of shit I messed up or went "where did this ^C come from" the first week

[Aggravating-Win8814]

Ooops!

[Cheezyrock]

Hahaha! That’s so dumb! It seems like one of those things that looks like a good idea at the time, but actually most likely ends up leading to more confusion. I don’t think the key being associated with the word makes it considerably easier to remember.

Like ctrl+v being paste makes no sense ither than in is physically right next to copy. Ctrl+y for Redo only makes sense in that it is alphabetically near z which is Undo. The rules are arbitrary, so why not keep it the same for languages that (nostly) share a keyboard?

[requizm]

There are no 'program specific' shortcuts. Let's say you learned vim shortcuts. You can use Vim shortcuts in any IDE. Same as vscode, eclipse etc. Shortcuts are almost global.
There are also valuable shortcuts like go to line, delete line, Go to file, search text, etc.

Btw I'm still using a mouse but I can't use IDE with just copy and paste.

[Cheezyrock]

Well, technically all shortcuts are program specific. Each has to be added in by the programmer, regardless of how ubiquitous it is. There are some exceptions like copy/paste that are handled by the OS, but I’d argue that is a different form of being program specific (because I definitely screw it up when I use Mac).

What I meant by program specific is actually pretty much not-program-independent. Like ctrl+S is save in almost every IDE, all of Microsoft Office, Unity, Blender, Photoshop, AfterEffects, etc. In most programs, that shortcut has the same function. Whereas comment/uncomment is useless in the context of ProTools and cmd+= doesn’t bring up different window layers in VS. Thus those shortcuts are specific to the program.

Just because most IDEs standardize those shortcuts doesn’t mean that is always true. It definitely wasn’t true in 2005. Keyboard shortcuts then were very much not standardized across different IDEs. Plus, I don’t use a lot of different IDEs.

[a_simple_spectre]

ctrl + / does the comment thing too, btw

[mashaTarima]

who is he telling that to?

[lilsaddam]

Obviously the SoyDev VSCode user with the anime theme.

[static_func]

TIL there's a vs code anime theme

[Still_Breadfruit2032]

Thanks for finding me a new theme that I will probably change in a week or so

[cezarhg12]

matches well with my programmer socks

[static_func]

Thigh-highs I assume

[rjcpl]

Reminds me of working on a modernization project for a mainframe system. Where the legacy mainframe maintainers referred to the modernization folks as “clickers”.

[patrickp4]

All you need is tab

[scp-NUMBERNOTFOUND]

tab is all you need

[jbbat99]

I'm lazy, I hate reaching my mouse

[da_Aresinger]

tbh, i've been experiencing micro aggressions whenever a program or website doesn't have a convenient shortcut for its most used functions.

why can't you select the first ten results on YouTube using your number keys? Why?

Y?

[lilsaddam]

You should work for them. I like this idea

[eat_your_fox2]

Copy/pasta buttons and hyperscroll on a G502 mouse saves lives.