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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by Joker_vD »

Kuraj wrote: post #193
SSLy wrote: post #172

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altgr-z still opens nvidia's bar instead of, you know, just typing ż. In 2021, not 2004.

Wait you mean the GeForce Experience overlay? I must have reassigned that right after installation so I didn't remember. But at least this one warrants having a hotkey in the first place!

I've reassigned it to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+] because that is one of the key combinations I'll never press accidentally... or intentionally, for what it matters: what do I need this overaly for anyway? Also, it's also somehow easily memorizable, after all, I still remember it after 4 years since I've bought my NVidia graphics card.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by Joker_vD »

nerdponx wrote: post #53
smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

Github has (or maybe had) some hotkey that not only opens a clunky browser-based text editor, but also forks the repo under your account. Then you have to go back and manually delete the repo that you didn't intend to fork. Ugh! Also a lot of web-based code editors override the standard Ctrl/Cmd-L shortcut ("go to URL bar") to mean "go to line". It's nice having IDE-like affordances, I guess, but not when it interfer…

Isn't the "standard" shortcut for "go to line #" actually Ctrl+G?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by Razengan »

js2 wrote: post #88
miah_ wrote: post #73

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On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable it (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?)).

Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard. I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled. This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock k…

why do capital letters even still exist? what’s the point really?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by jandrese »

evanelias wrote: post #130
jandrese wrote: post #126

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So the concept is you would click through to every post to read it? I have to admit I never twigged on this, because it seems insane.

No, again, it was not meant to be a traditional comment section. It was not a discussion thread for casual readers, especially via the blog view. If you wanted a normal comment system, you could use Disqus embeds, or just use a traditional blogging software. The reblog system was a way for Tumblr users to publicly respond to things, and allow that response to be visible to the responder's followers. The original post…

That explains it then. I never felt the need to make an account since I was just reading. They didn't make it clear that the service was incomplete without an account.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by a1369209993 »

justinsaccount wrote: post #210
a1369209993 wrote: post #208

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> One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. > It ended up being the last straw that pushed me to Ubuntu, and I've never looked back. On Ubuntu, that would be: $ Q=$($(echo /usr/bin/*rintf) \\x70) $ echo hel$Q help right?

$ echo hel$'\x70' help

Oh, neat. It's `echo hel$\x70` in my shell, but I didn't know bash had a similar mechanism.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by MiddleEndian »

pjc50 wrote: post #35
smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

So many times I've started typing in bash, and then realised that my focus has been on a website instead, which starts doing some ridiculous stuff in response. There's no way to discover hotkey functionality otherwise, of course, because "thou shalt not discover" is a modern UX guideline.

They've replaced discoverability with "repeated unwanted notifications about mundane updates"

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by bhl »

Nextgrid wrote: post #196
black_puppydog wrote: post #108

I feel like in a thread like this, Asana deserves a shout-out for utterly fucking up the UX in any firefox version I've tried, up to and including nightly. Typing in the various text input fields has ~1s of lag. It's a TEXT FIELD for fuck's sake!

Since a few years ago ruining text fields seems to be a rite of passage for front-end developers. I echo the Asana issue and I also noticed Slab (some kind of Notion alternative) both managed to make text lag.

Asana uses ProseMirror and Slab uses QuillJS, and neither of them lag by default if you look at the standalone libraries.. so :shrug:

If you have free time, I'd pop open Chrome Dev Tools, run a performance monitor on both and try to diff out what each of those products do that cause the additional input lag (if there's no code obfuscation).

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by bhl »

Nextgrid wrote: post #198
black_puppydog wrote: post #179

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just seems to happen more often in JS... :|

If you were writing pure JS you'd probably need to intentionally delay text entry with setTimeout/etc to achieve this effect - I don't think you can achieve this outcome by accident. The problem is that the front-end ecosystem encourages pulling in megabytes of third-party crap for every little thing (including poorly reinventing existing browser functionality) and the result is that some interaction between all that…

To be fair to authors of those third-party libraries, some of the blame has to do with browser quirks, and for a rich text editor, bugs in the implementation of content-editable that have to be normalized across all browsers (unless you pull the engineering-heavy route of rewriting everything in canvas).

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by mangamadaiyan »

tpxl wrote: post #145
sbierwagen wrote: post #124

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Notepad++ has a toolbar option that will uppercase all the currently selected text. Write a paragraph normally and then uppercase it with one click.

Lots of tools have this. IntelliJ has it mapped to ctrl shift U by default I think.

~

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by boogies »

tpxl wrote: post #145
sbierwagen wrote: post #124

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Notepad++ has a toolbar option that will uppercase all the currently selected text. Write a paragraph normally and then uppercase it with one click.

Lots of tools have this. IntelliJ has it mapped to ctrl shift U by default I think.

In vim gU makes the selection/motion uppercase, gu makes it lowercase and ~ toggles each of its characters' cases.
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