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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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.
For those learning how good Home is, wait until you try CTRL + Home. Start of the file.
Also see: CTRL + End
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.
ins switches between inserting and replacing text, very useful.
I personally never find myself needed that, I just selected and overwrite instead.
I make a point of using smartphone onscreen keyboards that have these keys. They are too useful!
Ooooo! Got any examples?
Hacker’s Keyboard on Android and I created a custom Squeekboard layout for my Linux phone.
Thanks!
Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert ist like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, but it works in terminals too. Very useful.
Sounds why more awkward to type than CTRL+C
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.
Or they vim bindings wherever possible, then those keys are a bit redundant and harder to reach
I was about to say home being useful cause it helps to get to the beginning of the page but its already mentioned in the description of the post 😂😂😂
Fellow deutans, fuck you
Gosh thanks. I was wondering why there are only two colors in this chart.
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You can take my ins from my cold dead hands!
I remember at one point when I was younger and newer to computers I was typing a document for school and being driven nuts by the damn insert key. Like I had zero clue as to why everything I was typing was just being overwritten every time I needed to go back and change something. I still think the insert key is absolutey evil!
I had a similar experience, but after I eventually figured it out, I grew to appreciate the insert key. Mostly because there were a few times when someone else was getting frustrated with the same problem and I was able to help them. It made me feel powerful; I had suffered, but I now possessed the knowledge to save others from the same fate.
What do you use it for
For entering overwrite text mode?
Thank you
Two things
- Overwriting existing text
- Some legacy scheduling software I use at work, where ctrl+ins inserts the copied day for a given coworker. Useful if you need to swap days in the schedule and a coworker has 3 different classes in as many rooms, and in some classes there are students from multiple courses. It’s archaic, but it saves time.
- Shift+ins to paste in the shell
What shell is that? Bash and sh use Emacs bindings, C-y. Or if you meant terminal, urxvt and I’m pretty sure xterm use C-M-v. Maybe that’s the gnome terminal?
Ohh thank you
My work laptop has pg up and pg down as a secondary on the up and down arrows. It’s such a threat to be able to move up and down a page with just pressing fn and the arrow keys
Woah buddy, no need to be so threatening to these innocent web pages
Autocorrect screwed me on that one haha
This comment just gave me ptsd due to a shitty keyboard I had growing up, they decided to put the sleep button (is that even still a thing? 👴) right next to the delete key I hit that thing on accident so many times :(
I have a power key on my Logitech keyboard. (K800 or something?) As far as I could find out, I could not turn it off, but you can change the action. Like sleep, shutdown, and restart or something… very… interesting feature?
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.
How long have you been programming?
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.
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
No one’s gonna throw shade at the ≣ key? Aka the Menu Key?
It’s next to useless. It’s almost always used to open the right-click menu, which is specifically for GUIs and based on the mouse position… so why not just right-click? What silly person is using their mouse except to bring up the context menu?
I’d say the same about the Super Key (❖) Aka The Windows Key, but I got i3wm on my laptop and I am loving having a GUI without needing to use my mortal enemy: the Trackpad. Plus it’s a minor time-save above moving windows/clicking menus with the mouse; still doesn’t apply to Menu when your finger’s already hovering over the RMB.
Super/Windows key isn’t useless… It gives you another modifier key. Since apps don’t really use it, you can use it for global shortcuts without the risk of collisions with shortcut keys that individual apps support like you would with Ctrl, Alt and Shift.
Something that I have come to appreciate about MacOS. The ctrl modifier is completely free from the OS so, I don’t have to worry about terminal commands causing unexpected side effects.
I absolutely love being able to command+c and command+v in my terminals.
It’s so useless that Microsoft recently announced it’s going to replace it with a button for their stupid AI bullshit Copilot
I use the menu key in my terminal emulator to paste from the clipboard. Just Menu -> P. There’s probably a shortcut, but this works.
Very nice! Jsyk, you can also use Shift + Ctrl + V for the one handed paste (likewise Shift + Ctrl + C to copy), or Shift + Insert (and Ctrl + Insert to copy) works too. If you’re on Windows, right clicking in CMD/Powershell pastes, Enter copies anything highlighted, and Ctrl + V work as usual… Ctrl + C copies too, except when a command/script is actively running, in which case it sends the halt signal, so use it at your own risk.
I usually stick to the Ctrl + Shift shortcuts, but it messes me up when I’m trying to copy from firefox into my terminal and I accidentally bring up the devtools instead
Jsyk, you can also use Shift + Ctrl + V for the one handed paste (likewise Shift + Ctrl + C to copy), or Shift + Insert (and Ctrl + Insert to copy) works too.
TIL, works in xfce4-terminal, thank you!
I use it to open the spell checker options while I’m typing. It’s annoying to have to switch from keyboard to mouse. My current laptop doesn’t have the key and I even added another short key.
The super key, again, is useful so you don’t have to switch between keyboard and mouse when searching for an app. It is also the modifier for all GUI shortcuts.
I have to disagree with the Windows key being useless. Win+Shift+S for selective screen grab to clipboard. Win+E to open a new Explorer window. Win+D to show the desktop. They were my go-tos. Now I’m forced to use Mac I use the Win key all the time too, Win+C, Win+V…
According to the ancient list of standard keyboard shortcuts (generally made famous by Microsoft, but used elsewhere before and after), the context menu was Shift+F10 anyway. Plain F10 being the main menu. A context menu key wasn’t really needed.
Even the Windows key had the alternative binding Ctrl+Esc for those people who had old keyboards. That’s why Ctrl+Shift+Esc called up Task Manager. Related meanings and all that. Arguably though, the Windows key being associated with the space-cadet keyboard’s Super functionality was a stroke of genius on the part of Linux adopters. It’s also why Alt is often called “Meta”.
I’m surprised the context menu key hasn’t been called and used as “Hyper”, but then there is only one on a modern PC keyboard. There’s two of all the others.
(Given the precedent, Alt+F10 ought to be the window manager’s “title bar” menu, but the Alt+F# shortcuts are a separate, older, family. Most aren’t implemented by default these days, but the famous don’t press it without thinking Alt+F4 to close the window is part of it. Alt+Space is what’s used instead for the aforementioned menu.)
I must be in the minority. I haven’t used any of these keys in over a decade. Probably more like 15 years at this point. Command + something can replace almost all of these, so why waste an extra key on it.
Really you just need a command key, get rid of the rest. Hold it down for different lengths of time to indicate which key input you want.
You still use keys?
There’s a comedy sketch from about twenty years ago where that happens but I can’t find it at the mo.
You joke, but my caps lock on my laptop keyboard is mapped to command and if I double tap it and hold it’s my hyper key. On my crkbd keyboard if I hold
ait’s option and semicolon is control. I have quite a lot of keys like this. It’s very efficient.
on debian based system PrntScr actually prints stuff you’re looking at in a terminal, if a printer is configured. learned that the hard way, accidentally printing hundreds of pages of html source
Well, Print screen is literally written on it, so you got what you wanted
well yes, but i hit it by accident and it didn’t ask and there wasn’t even a notification. the printer was in another room, so i couldn’t even hear it. (it was at work)
Yeah, it was supposed to be a loud matrix printer on your computer with a parallel cable
Insert is extremely useful in any editing situation. Right after Find and Replace.
Except in VS Code -.-
tbh I’ve been saved by VS Code ignoring a fat fingering of the Insert key by mistake far more times than I’ve actually wanted it to work as intended.
Home is God-tier, just as useful as End when editing stuff.
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.
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.
Why use the mouse when you are already on the keyboard?
What if you want to be at the spot where you actually clicked the mouse?
Agreed, but I am more of a “Shift + I” kind of guy
Wait doesn’t Shift + I just type “I”?
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.
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
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
Insanely useful editing CLI
Apple didn’t think so on the iPhone
Home is pretty useful actually, just like end. Ins can go fuck itself
Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert ist like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, but it works in terminals too. Very useful.
Yup I use insert for this all the time.
I used ins all the time before I moved to 65% keyboard. All of those times were accidental when hitting backspace
ins for vim. quickly changing between replace and insert mode
Personally I’d put home in green and del in yellow, I’ve got home and end mapped to the left and right of my up arrow key (for some reason Lenovo decided in their infinite wisdom to put pgup and pgdn there) and it makes it far faster to get around text editors
