I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by AbraKdabra on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:02AM (#32509729)

Keyboard looks great but no insert-delete-home-end cluster means an instant no from me in any keyboard, how do you people move without those keys? I've cringed enough in my life seeing people pressing the arrow keys and waiting 5-20 seconds while the cursor traverse an entire phrase/paragraph.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by rewgs on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:10AM (#32509835)

Mac users don’t need them. Not sure about Insert, but Cmd+backspace, Cmd+up or left arrow, Cmd+down or right arrow give you delete/home/end respectively. Alt+up/down arrow gives you page up/down.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by AbraKdabra on Thursday August 18, 2022 @11:02AM (#32510627)

The fact that you don't need them doesn't mean everyone else doesn't use them, also, how do you know what every Mac user thinks? Also you know there are other OSs around don't you?

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by silon42 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:13PM (#32512345)

When I've used a Mac, I've used them (external keyboard, the laptop one is useless for me).

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by waaveshine on Thursday August 18, 2022 @10:18AM (#32509967)

Emacs shortcuts are universal in macOS and much more convenient than home/end/delete/etc in my opinion.

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Re:I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanica... by AbraKdabra on Thursday August 18, 2022 @11:00AM (#32510603)

That's oddly specific and doesn't solve the real problem. Also there is a world outside Emacs and macOS, like a ton of other applications and OS.

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