Re:Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year
by hnrodey on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:57PM
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Jira hijacks Control+F and directs you towards their custom search functionality. Exactly what I DON'T WANT.
Re:Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year
by muxator on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:20PM
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Yep, github too is guilty of this sin.
I think this is a normal (and unhealthy) consequence of the JS browser APIs keeping expandong. A sort of Greenspuns Tenth Rule Of Programming that happened on the web platform.
I am not sure there is a cure. Every successful platform would have been bound to eventually become that.
Re:Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year
by zokier on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:27PM
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AWS has this thing that allows you to connect to an virtual machine from the web console, giving you browser based terminal. Very convenient and nifty. Except using ^W to delete word is so hardwired in my muscle memory that I ended up accidentally closing the tab (and losing state) endless times... I don't think its solvable problem
That being said, same issue happens, albeit to a lesser degree, with desktop apps where occasionally the DE/WM shortcuts conflict with some applications shortcuts.
Re:Keyboards and web apps, my post/rant for the year
by saint_yossarian on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:30PM
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In Firefox you can enable the ui.key.textcontrol.prefer_native_key_bindings_over_builtin_shortcut_key_definitions setting, but I think you also need to enable Emacs keys in Gtk.
With this I'm able to use Ctrl+w normally in the Gitpod terminal, so this might work for the one in AWS as well.
I wish there was some sort of universal agreement or API for what short cuts should do functionally.