When I started my current job, I thought I was getting a repetitive stress injury from the hundreds of copy pastes I was making daily. Eventually I got used to it, but my hand still hurts occasionally.
I am 100% behind the idea of dedicated buttons!
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Look into autohotkey or a mouse with extra buttons you can map to these functions.
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I think that everyone who really wants that will spend a half an hour learning how to remap keys.
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One of my computers has a clipboard key that's for pasting.
Except I'm totally used to ctrl-C ctrl-V, so I never use it.
(Adapted from XKCD)
There are 5 zillion hotkeys.
"5 zillion hotkeys? Ridiculous! We should add dedicated buttons for common operations."
There are now 5 zillion hotkeys and "media buttons" nobody uses.
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Seriously though, a lot of old keyboards in ye olde computers had dedicated buttons for a lot of things, but then people figured out software defined, remappable key commands are actually pretty neat. You don't need a dedicated "Help" key if it's usually mapped to F1. Moving back to dedicated keys is, ummm, sometimes unwarranted?
Mm, I wouldn't hate it. It could take the place of the scroll lock and pause break buttons on my keyboard, two keys i've literally never used.
I can see the benefit, although personally I'm too attuned to ctrl+c,v,z,x
A key I'd really like to see on computer keyboards is a shift key that behaves the same as on a phone, toggling between lowercase, Title Case, and UPPERCASE.
It'd be so useful to be able to select text you've already typed and change the format. Phones have done it for years, why not computers? Could be a much better use for the Caps Lock key.
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Back in the day there were 12 more keys that could be bound to that but they decided to get rid of them.
Logitech G910 has a bunch of extra keys that you can create macros for and on mine I've got three of them set just for that
Do them 100000 times and see how comfortable they feel
My keyboard has a column of configurable macro keys. My last one had two columns. I use them soooo much I have literally never bothered to figure out how to set them up on this one.
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If you have a QMK compatible keyboard you can do that.
It's true they would probably be more useful to the average keyboard user than say the scroll lock key, or the fucking copilot key. But to be really useful, they would have to be easily accessible without moving you bands, or else it'd just be faster to use a shortcut. Keyboards with macro keys do exist so maybe get one and map them to CTRL+C/V
Now that you've said it, it does seem like an obvious improvement.