Moving the Ctrl Key

Re:Moving the Ctrl Key by virogenesis on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:20AM (#34136063)

I am surprised there are not more people here that hit the CTRL key with the left part of the palm of their hand rather then twisting the pinky.

I don't think I could even bend my pinky comfortably to do this action.

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Re:Moving the Ctrl Key by omegabravo on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:38AM (#34136151)

I hit CTRL with my palm too.

I often perform cut/copy/paste with CTRL+Insert,SHIFT+Delete,SHIFT+Insert which is fine on a full sized keyboard. It's why I can't buy so many keyboards that have "optimised" the layout.

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Re:Moving the Ctrl Key by orwin on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:27AM (#34136101)

I thought the reason why Ctrl was on the bottom left was to use your palm to press it.

All my CS1.6 teammates used this. Learned in compsci classes it wasn't as ubiquitous as is first thought.

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Re:Moving the Ctrl Key by sph on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:44AM (#34136177)

I have a ZSA Moonlander split keyboard and for better Emacs ergonomics, I have Ctrl under my right thumb, and Alt under my left thumb.

But twisting the palm to hit Ctrl always struck me as a terrible idea, maybe because I have large hands. Better remap Capslock.

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