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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I use pgup/pgdn every day. Especially with terminal multiplexers, as I am unaware of how to view the scrollback buffer of long outputs faster than a quick couple of pgup’s.
Ctrl+ pgup/ pgdn.
Moving tabs in Vscode or browsers.
God Tier on thinkpad keyboard.
Fellow deutans, fuck you
Gosh thanks. I was wondering why there are only two colors in this chart.
Home is God-tier, just as useful as End when editing stuff.
Apple didn’t think so on the iPhone
Had to look for a new laptop for my wife. One of the requirements was a Home and an End key because both were missing on her old laptop for some inane reason. Not available with Fn, just nothing. Before that we wouldn’t even have thought of checking for that.
You can add those as win+, or any other combination you like, using KMonad or Kanata, plus a lot of other shenanigans. But I guess having them natively is a lot easier for everyone involved.
Insanely useful editing CLI
Agreed, but I am more of a “Shift + I” kind of guy
Wait doesn’t Shift + I just type “I”?
Only if you are in insert mode. If you are in normal mode, Shift-I moves to the beginning of the line and then enters insert mode.
That’s some arcane gobbledygook. I think you mean M-m
Ah, I see you’re a nerd of culture as well.
Esc-meta-alt-ctrl-shift + m
Tied my left hand into a pretzel trying that one
To kill the joke, they’re talking about the popular and mode-based editor VIM where in normal mode each key on the keyboard does an action
Yeah when I searched for “insert-mode” from another comment, the next suggested result was “insert-mode vim” and “insert-mode visual studio” (which IIRC is just aping vim), plus it’s /c/programmerhumor so I had a feeling that it would be vim shenanigans.
OrCTRL-{left arrow}I think, I’m going off muscle memoryThat jumps left one word rather than to the start of the line in everything I can think of
Nope you’re right, it was
Fn+{{left arrow}}on mine. I don’t use it often thoughCtrl+A does do that though if you wanted a Ctrl way of doing it
Yeah, weird to see someone who appreciates the end key but not the home key.
Editing a line and pressing home to jump to the start of it is incredibly useful.
More so when dealing with anything that was wrapped
I have my left mouse wheel click set to home, and right mouse wheel click to end. That way I can decide if I want to be at the start of the line or the end.
What if you want to be at the spot where you actually clicked the mouse?
Why use the mouse when you are already on the keyboard?
Smells like windows if End is God Tier but Home isn’t. On the command line being without either would kill my speed something fierce
On SSH that button is a killer, even works in vim. For home I never found any use.
oh shit it actually goes to the beginning of a line, instant upgrade to god tier
… I’m curious what you thought it did
translate “home” from finnish to english ;)
Oh that’s interesting. You thought it was a back key? That’s very interesting to me as I’ve been using computers since before a ‘back button’ on browsers was a thing.
I actually thought it was like a reset button, like when using a browser, pressing home would put you into your home page. If the name was start, like end, I may have tried to actually use it for text editing.
And those who don’t want to translate it, “Home” is “Mold” in Finnish, a running joke that the button is never used lol.
How long have you been programming?
I’ve only had issues with embedded serial consoles and things where you have to swap ctrl-h/? for backspace. But usually it’s solvable with key mapping.
Also you mention vi/m but insert is red? That’s the toggle switch between insert and replace mode (i vs shift-R)
Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e are much faster to type than home/end and do the same thing (assuming a standard readline-enabled command line).
All the keys in the cluster above the arrow keys are really too hard to reach to be of real practical use, IMO. Actually that includes arrow keys as well. Just too far from home row.
Is this a joke I’m too
set -o vito understand?
Not even just windows - i’ve used it a lot on windows systems - but yeah, this rather carries the scent of a skills issue
Pressing ScrLk twice and then the number of the port switches to this port on the KVM switch in the office. Very specific use case, but still.
Pause … I have no idea. If I remember correctly you can, well, pause terminal output with it, but I never tried.
The rest of the keys I use regularly.
Most tier lists use a tabular format, often horizontal. This one looks like a table organized vertically. Except it’s neither and instead uses color, but isn’t R/G colorblindness the most common form? Anyway, I’m saying that I found it confusing.
Then again, you posted infinitely more to Lemmy today than I did (at zero:-P), so there is no need at all to listen to my whining if you aren’t interested in such feedback on presentation style:-D.
I’m severely deutan, even then red and green are a clear difference. Yellow is a bit harder to see, but still visible. Should not be an issue unless you are suffering from dichromatism.
I’m fully protan and cannot tell the difference between the god-tier and yellow tier colors at all. They are literally the same to me.
Really? I didn’t know that.
When I did the color shading test I failed crazy with the shades between green and red, including yellow. Obviously I failed the whole board, but that was the worst though.
Can you try to see the difference, because you should see it, with colorblindness the shades are just harder to see? If you actually cannot tell the difference you might have something else than protanomaly, like missing one cone completely rather than a shifted one.
Unless you meant protanopia, rather then protanomaly, the -nopia means a missing cone aka dichromacy, and -nomaly a shifted one I think?
I use Win+Pause as a shortcut to bring up the system menu in Windows. I’ve used it so much over the years, it takes me a minute to figure out how to find that menu when I’m using a keyboard that doesn’t have a Windows key.
I also use Home and End about equally. Quick way to scroll back and forth across text or files/folders.
Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.
PrtSc, so it’s on Pirate’s Screen.
what, no SysRq?
boo!
Raising elephants is so utterly boring.
Okay I’ll bite…: How are PgUp and PgDown yellow, when Menu is missing from the list?
Right? Same with Home, I use that all the time.
Hey! Don’t remove the context menu key, I use that! The alternatives are 1. using the mouse (no!) and 2. Alt+F10 which is awkward.
Huh… Do you also move the cursor with your keyboard? And if so, don’t you have an RMB key? If you don’t use a mouse, do you use a GUI that isn’t suited for keyboard navigation?
Ins is so much more deserving of an indicator light than scroll lock - I almost never want Ins engaged in it’s normal meaning… I’d rather just delete word and retype the whole thing.
Don’t take my pause key from me that’s the best key! I just want pausable games to bind with that key again like they used to, guys it’s right there by name and everything. Just started playing rollercoaster tycoon 2 again and, after the mandatory drowning of the first person I saw, I was delighted to find the pause key pauses the game. Even better is if I need to take a break from something pause/break is inclusive of it all. I can walk away from what I’m up to for minute and don’t have to worry that the machine is going to feel abandoned because it’s right there on the key just taking a break little buddy I’ll be back.
What about the Any key?
Titan tier. I press it every time a program tells me to.
Sure, but I ordered a Tab ages ago and it still hasn’t arrived.
I saw the picture before reading the edit and was trying to imagine what OP was doing that made the end key significantly more useful than the home key, like not going backwards on principle or something.
