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There are those that know very few keyboard commands...

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  • P PeejayAdams

    I'm keyboard heavy as I started coding in before they had fancy things like mice (mouses? meeces? what is the plural?) hanging out of computers. Biggest pain for me is function keys on laptops. I'm far more likely to want to start a debug session than get on an aeroplane, so why do I need to hit "fnkey" or whatever to tell it I'm using a function key? (Yes, I can probably change it via the BIOS but it's a lousy default).

    Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain

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    I know. I remember that particular misfeature being one of a number of showstoppers with me seriously using a Macbook (ca 2000 PowerPC model). I was very pleased that my new ASUS Zenbook supports function keys by default without having to hack the BIOS. The only thing they did wrong was put the page up and page down as the alternate meaning of F11 and F12 - I ended up repurposing the useless key with a box and 3 horizontal lines and the only somewhat useful right control key as the page up and page down keys, using an xmodmap script. At least they could be repurposed, on the aforementioned Macbook, modifier keys could not be repurposed in that way, so I had useless keys, and nowhere to bind page up/page down.

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