If you have “Help” instead of “Ins”, replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come.
OC, feel free to share.
EDIT; Home is now G-od tier. I didn’t know it would go to the beginning of a line, I always used macros “lol”.
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Home is God-tier, just as useful as End when editing stuff.
Yeah, weird to see someone who appreciates the end key but not the home key.
Editing a line and pressing home to jump to the start of it is incredibly useful.
More so when dealing with anything that was wrapped
I have my left mouse wheel click set to home, and right mouse wheel click to end. That way I can decide if I want to be at the start of the line or the end.
Why use the mouse when you are already on the keyboard?
Insanely useful editing CLI
Agreed, but I am more of a “Shift + I” kind of guy
Wait doesn’t Shift + I just type “I”?
Only if you are in insert mode. If you are in normal mode, Shift-I moves to the beginning of the line and then enters insert mode.
That’s some arcane gobbledygook. I think you mean M-m
Esc-meta-alt-ctrl-shift + m
Tied my left hand into a pretzel trying that one
To kill the joke, they’re talking about the popular and mode-based editor VIM where in normal mode each key on the keyboard does an action
Yeah when I searched for “insert-mode” from another comment, the next suggested result was “insert-mode vim” and “insert-mode visual studio” (which IIRC is just aping vim), plus it’s /c/programmerhumor so I had a feeling that it would be vim shenanigans.
OrCTRL-{left arrow}I think, I’m going off muscle memoryThat jumps left one word rather than to the start of the line in everything I can think of
Ctrl+A does do that though if you wanted a Ctrl way of doing it
Nope you’re right, it was
Fn+{{left arrow}}on mine. I don’t use it often though
Had to look for a new laptop for my wife. One of the requirements was a Home and an End key because both were missing on her old laptop for some inane reason. Not available with Fn, just nothing. Before that we wouldn’t even have thought of checking for that.
Smells like windows if End is God Tier but Home isn’t. On the command line being without either would kill my speed something fierce
Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e are much faster to type than home/end and do the same thing (assuming a standard readline-enabled command line).
All the keys in the cluster above the arrow keys are really too hard to reach to be of real practical use, IMO. Actually that includes arrow keys as well. Just too far from home row.
On SSH that button is a killer, even works in vim. For home I never found any use.
oh shit it actually goes to the beginning of a line, instant upgrade to god tier
… I’m curious what you thought it did
translate “home” from finnish to english ;)
Oh that’s interesting. You thought it was a back key? That’s very interesting to me as I’ve been using computers since before a ‘back button’ on browsers was a thing.
I’ve only had issues with embedded serial consoles and things where you have to swap ctrl-h/? for backspace. But usually it’s solvable with key mapping.
Also you mention vi/m but insert is red? That’s the toggle switch between insert and replace mode (i vs shift-R)
You don’t use Home? Home and End are my two most used keys on this list. IDEs move your cursor to the beginning of the line but after the indents. It’s God -tier.
I’ll take home over pgup/down any day.
Also Menu key is pretty obscure, I consider it a yellow, since it’s useful when you don’t have a mouse, but there are other shortcuts that can do it (shift+f10)
Pause is useless but only because escape steals all it’s usecases in apps.The only tool I know that uses it prominently is Windbg
Pressing ScrLk twice and then the number of the port switches to this port on the KVM switch in the office. Very specific use case, but still.
Pause … I have no idea. If I remember correctly you can, well, pause terminal output with it, but I never tried.
The rest of the keys I use regularly.
Ins is so much more deserving of an indicator light than scroll lock - I almost never want Ins engaged in it’s normal meaning… I’d rather just delete word and retype the whole thing.
For those learning how good Home is, wait until you try CTRL + Home. Start of the file.
Also see: CTRL + End
on debian based system PrntScr actually prints stuff you’re looking at in a terminal, if a printer is configured. learned that the hard way, accidentally printing hundreds of pages of html source
Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.
PrtScr, so it’s on Pirate’s Screen.
what, no SysRq?
boo!
“pause/break” I can understand if you don’t write compiled code I guess (if you don’t know, Ctrl+break usually stops compilation, very handy when you reread your code while compiling and realized you fucked something up), but “home” is remove-tier ??? It’s one of the most useful keys for editing text my dude
Ctrl+break doesn’t do anything on my machine. Ctrl+c stops a process.
I always have it setup to stop compilation. Picked that up from using visual studio for many years. I admit it’s been a while since I last compiled something from a terminal
Okay I’ll bite…: How are PgUp and PgDown yellow, when Menu is missing from the list?
Right? Same with Home, I use that all the time.
Don’t take my pause key from me that’s the best key! I just want pausable games to bind with that key again like they used to, guys it’s right there by name and everything. Just started playing rollercoaster tycoon 2 again and, after the mandatory drowning of the first person I saw, I was delighted to find the pause key pauses the game. Even better is if I need to take a break from something pause/break is inclusive of it all. I can walk away from what I’m up to for minute and don’t have to worry that the machine is going to feel abandoned because it’s right there on the key just taking a break little buddy I’ll be back.
On a serious note, the PC keyboard seriously needs a revamp. Scroll Lock? What does that even do nowadays?
I usually bind some toggled macros to it (e.g autoclicker). The lil’ light really comes in handy for this use case. I also used it as my “mute” shortcut in various VOIP softwares for a while for the same reason
I use Win+Pause as a shortcut to bring up the system menu in Windows. I’ve used it so much over the years, it takes me a minute to figure out how to find that menu when I’m using a keyboard that doesn’t have a Windows key.
I also use Home and End about equally. Quick way to scroll back and forth across text or files/folders.
