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Obscure button tier list (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by krotti to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are all useful, except for maybe Pause. Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert ist like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, but it works in terminals too. Home goes to the beginning of the line. Shift+Home marks the line from current position until the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They are all useful, except for maybe Pause.

And Scroll Lock?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Scroll lock is useful for Excel. It makes the arrow keys scroll the spreadsheet without changing the currently selected cell. This was actually the original use case for the scroll lock key.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't it also used to stop terminals (I'm talking, old-ass, mainframe terminals here) auto scrolling even before that ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the pause/break key did that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I actually had no clue since whenever I pressed it nothing happens.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It's useful for UltraVNC to pass through key combos like alt-tab without triggering them on the local PC.