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I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
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Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple's just doing what's on the agenda, plugging the analog hole. Your TV doesn't have a headphone jack any more either. TVs haven't had this in decades.
I don't think I've ever owned any headphones with a long enough cable to plug into my tv when I'm sitting at a comfortable viewing position
3.5mm to bluetooth adapters are also an option for wireless headphones if you don't mind the quality loss and other bluetooth annoyances.
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#163Thinkpad laptops thankfully have a BIOS option to revert the behaviour to normal, where F1-F12 perform their nominal functions. I'd probably pay an extra €50 for a laptop that didn't come with a stupid Fn button at all. Might want to throw some more money at a few more keyboard modifications: my bottom row is Fn CTRL Win Alt Space AltGr PrtSc Ctrl; that PrtSc button clearly has no business being there. Arrows & PgUp/…
Thinkpad laptops thankfully have the option to switch Fn and Ctrl Key in the bios, because that Fn in the bottem left is reserved by my muscle memory to ctrl and I won't change that.
The Thinkpad I have is too old to have the BIOS feature to swap Fn and Ctrl. It has a Core 2 duo.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whereas I cut my teeth on emacs in the early 90's, so modal is what felt awkward. I wouldn't dislike vim's modes so much if it just had one combination insert/append mode that worked like every other editor out there (including a couple other modal editors I've used), but even after adding various hacks to my vimrc to help unify the two modes, I still stumble over the behavior differences in other places. I really li…
> I wouldn't dislike vim's modes so much if it just had one combination insert/append mode that worked like every other editor out there (including a couple other modal editors I've used), but even after adding various hacks to my vimrc to help unify the two modes, I still stumble over the behavior differences in other places. To be fair, for most values of "every other editor out there," they came after vi (if not a…
For sure, I'm saying that vi stuck with its design rather than follow the trend of other modal editors that converged on one insert mode, and so did its follow-ups like vim.
I just tried out helix and I'm really liking the features like its single insert mode. Still taking some getting used to, since it's selection-first, not command-first, so `dd` just deletes two chars and not the line. And shift-V doesn't select lines... grr.
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#165Missing the zeroth option in the "doing Fn right" suggestion list: don't use Fn . I have a keyboard here with a handful of extra keys at the top which do all these functions that the author is showing as Fn functions on their keyboard. Isn't that simply the right option? Also on laptops: yes, I want to change the brightness regularly, but also I use the function keys in applications that support them. There's already…
I tend to go for keyboards that don't need all of that messing about with the Fn key, too.
By the way: It's a lot more than 100 keys. People tend to accept that because they have what is called a '105-key' keyboard that it actually has 105 keys. One of my '105-key' keyboards has 124 physical keys. For approaching a decade now, I've wanted a 127-key keyboard from Brazil. Formally, that's a '107-key' keyboard.
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every keyboard I used so far - and those were many, many, many - have the ctrl in the bottom left. Lenovo is the only weird excemption I experienced. So I believe people like me are the vast majority and you should maybe rather blame them, for introducing this weirdness in the first place.
Lenovo is the “weird exception” because thinkpads have always had the Fn key on the bottom left. Just like they still keep the track point. I would presume most people buying a thinkpad don’t want to buy “the vast majority” of laptops.
> thinkpads have always had the Fn key on the bottom left
It’s good that after 30 years they’ve realised their error and have finally fixed it. On Windows and Linux, Ctrl is the most-used-modifier-key and bottom-left is the most-easy-to-find-key-position. Putting the most used key in the easiest-to-find position shouldn’t be a hard decision to make.
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#167FYI -- You can configure your system to ignore the sleep key (without disabling sleep altogether) by setting
HandleSuspendKey=ignore
in /etc/systemd/logind.conf
(No idea how if you're on Windows/Mac/Devuan but it's probably possible there as well)
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#168My Lenovo Carbon X1 daily driver has an option to disable or enable fn keys and uses blue led to indicated the status.
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whereas I cut my teeth on emacs in the early 90's, so modal is what felt awkward. I wouldn't dislike vim's modes so much if it just had one combination insert/append mode that worked like every other editor out there (including a couple other modal editors I've used), but even after adding various hacks to my vimrc to help unify the two modes, I still stumble over the behavior differences in other places. I really li…
> I wouldn't dislike vim's modes so much if it just had one combination insert/append mode that worked like every other editor out there (including a couple other modal editors I've used), but even after adding various hacks to my vimrc to help unify the two modes, I still stumble over the behavior differences in other places. To be fair, for most values of "every other editor out there," they came after vi (if not a…
Actually, there are a number of full-screen editors that pre-dated vi. They were for mainframe operating systems, or were confined to some university or other, or were commercial products for something like CP/M made by some tiny company somewhere, and are largely forgotten; with the last magtapes or floppy discs that had copies of them long since thrown away. Unix and vi, and what escaped UCB, got remembered. But there was other stuff around.
Re: I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
#170Just use a Macintosh. You can simply tell it to be fn keys instead.