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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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Post by thraxil »

magicalhippo wrote: post #76
screye wrote: post #42

Along the same lines: 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't, but I know quite a lot who swear by them. Do they actually increase productivity ? 2. Should caps lock be removed as a large button in the most valuable real-estate-area on the keyboard ? I literally never use it. Even when typing long ALL-CAPS sequences. I just use 'shift' instead. 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? I only use…

> 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? I use both a lot while coding, usually in conjunction with ctrl+left or ctrl+right for quickly positioning the cursor where I want it, or ctrl+home or ctrl+end to quickly go to the top or bottom respectively. > 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? Yes, not often while programming,…

> I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end?

In emacs, it's just Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to go to beginning of line and end of line respectively. Those don't involve taking my hands off the home row, so they're much faster than lifting a hand up to go hit Home or End.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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Post by cbertoldi »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #83

I'm not japanese (but I've got japanese family members) but I do use japanese keyboard since years and years and years. I use it as a qwerty keyboard but... I use the extra functions keys as "super" and "hyper" in addition to ctrl/shift/alt. I love japanese keyboards because the space bar is tiny so the modifiers left and right of the space bar are easy to reach. The "super" modifier is only for shortcuts related to…

I own a Varmilo VA88M and I would like to replace the spacebar with a smaller one to have a bigger left alt key, similar to the MBP keyboard.

I've already googled for a shorter spacebar keycap, but without luck.

Does anybody have a suggestion?

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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Post by pk78 »

ashtonkem wrote: post #88

My mouse (Logitech G604) has six side buttons, three extra top bottoms, and has the following programmed on it: - copy - paste - enter - forward - back - Zoom mic toggle[0] - OSX screen left/right (activated by pushing the mouse wheel left or right). - Volume up/down (on top of the mouse) Screen left/right is the most important things I do with the mouse aside from the normal pointing and clicking. For the side butto…

Pretty much the same mappings here. Excellent mouse!

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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Post by nickjj »

thraxil wrote: post #131
magicalhippo wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? I use both a lot while coding, usually in conjunction with ctrl+left or ctrl+right for quickly positioning the cursor where I want it, or ctrl+home or ctrl+end to quickly go to the top or bottom respectively. > 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? Yes, not often while programming,…

> I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? In emacs, it's just Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to go to beginning of line and end of line respectively. Those don't involve taking my hands off the home row, so they're much faster than lifting a hand up to go hit Home or End.

> In emacs, it's just Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to go to beginning of line and end of line respectively.

This also works for most terminal emulators unless you've customized your bindings. It's really handy to go-to the beginning or end of a terminal command.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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Post by e-_pusher »

This is a little different than what the OP is asking but - I programmed an Xbox controller so that its buttons can act as left and right mouse buttons. This helps relieve fatigue in my right hand when I am working on mouse-intensive CAD work like laying out circuit boards etc.

Write-up here : https://iskender.ee/2020/12/27/Dual-Mouse.html

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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Post by magicalhippo »

thraxil wrote: post #131
magicalhippo wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. How often do people use 'home' and 'end' keys ? I don't I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? I use both a lot while coding, usually in conjunction with ctrl+left or ctrl+right for quickly positioning the cursor where I want it, or ctrl+home or ctrl+end to quickly go to the top or bottom respectively. > 3. Do you use space bars with both hands ? Yes, not often while programming,…

> I'd say, what are you coding where you don't benefit from home and end? In emacs, it's just Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to go to beginning of line and end of line respectively. Those don't involve taking my hands off the home row, so they're much faster than lifting a hand up to go hit Home or End.

> they're much faster than lifting a hand up to go hit Home or End

Hmm, I see jumping by words is Alt+f and Alt+b, which seems more awkward to follow up with than Ctrl+Home followed by Ctrl+Left, say. Then again, mostly depends on time spent I doing it assume.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

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