Re:Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
by howdydoo on Saturday January 15, 2022 @05:11PM
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Are there any apps other than terminals that don't use ctrl-c? I can forgive that in a terminal app because it conflicts with SIGINT, but it would be very weird if a normal app like vscode did it differently.
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Re:Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
by GekkePrutser on Saturday January 15, 2022 @05:15PM
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Not really no. It seems to be only terminals.
Mind you, Mac has a similar annoyance with its command-C/V. If you work with Linux (+BSD) , Windows and Mac every day, as I do, be prepared to be frustrated a LOT.
I'd love if keyboards just had dedicated keys for this. It's used enough to warrant them (much more than other obscure functions like SysRq that do get their own key, or Apple's 19 function keys). I guess this is because I'm the DOS single task days there wasn't much of a need for copying and pasting.
alt+w is ctrl+c in emacs. moreover you can enable emacs-like key bindings in most terminals so alt+w can work there too without conflict
Re:Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
by somenewaccount1 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:07PM
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You would think, but I'm a sys admin and
1) live in the terminal.
2) copy and paste to/from the terminal often
3) do not like accidentally cancelling a command when I just meant to copy something.