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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I try not to judge people....unless I see them right-clicking to copy and paste. Ew.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, who wouldn't use the toolbar icons?!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

I.......

Fuck you, man!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If your hand is already on the mouse, it can be quicker to just right click and click copy. Especially if the next action also uses the mouse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do you hold the mouse with both hands?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

No, the other hand is scratching my balls

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

No, but I've been using Dvorak long enough to have forgotten how convenient the default cut/copy/paste binds are [on qwerty] without stopping to think about it. Dvorak's x, c, and v are where qwerty's b, i, and period are, respectively.

I still use the keybinds more often than right click, but it's not always the optimal option. With qwerty, it might be always optimal.

Edit: clarity (marked with square brackets)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Based dvorak enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

well as a Colemak enjoyer I don't have that problem. Couldn't you just rebind the shortcuts in your OS to be in the normal spot near ctrl?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure there is a way to rebind those keyboard shortcuts, at least in Windows, since I believe they are all handled in the current program's Windows message handler as key inputs rather than cut/copy/paste events. So, afaik, it would need to be set up on a per program basis with that program's support.

There might be a utility that does that remapping on a key by key basis, but I figure such an app might not work as well with games that use ctrl as a modifier key but not for cut/copy/paste.

For Linux, most of the work I do there is via the terminal which doesn't even have the usual ctrl key combos for those operations (like ctrl+c is SIGTERM instead of copy).

If I'm doing something that is heavy on copy/paste and mouse use, middle click paste covers a lot and for what it doesn't, I can move my left hand to hit the qwerty period or I buttons on the right side of the keyboard, so this issue hasn't been enough of a problem for me to seek out a better solution. I've also got a two button switch keyboard layouts shortcut so I could just switch it to qwerty for that and switch back easy enough.

Though I did use to rebind those shortcuts in word and the like when qwerty habits were fresher in my mind. Thinking back on it, I'm not sure when it was that I "unlearned" those shortcuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I had someone send me bullet points in Teams… except they weren’t bullet points or even carriage returns. It was just 50+ spaces at the end of the line to make the text go down to the next line in her view.

She was also a right-click copy/paster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Shift+ins gang

[–] TheRealLinga 4 points 4 days ago

You've got me questioning my life choices

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Double click then middle click gang.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Middle click paste ftw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Button2 and while pressed, button3 to snarf.