Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
arstechnica.com
Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
Another useless key? Use Scroll lock or SysRq for that. Or even better, reuse that stupid "menu" key. They'll cram one more key to the left of the spacebar and make ctrl, alt, and windows keys smaller. Or change their order.
Bruh how am I gonna lock my arrow keys for screen navigation in Excel then??
You mean i dont have to arrow each cell to move the view?
Hey, I use my menu key as Compose!
I use the menu key all the time... It's very handy to avoid using the mouse.
I honestly never used it. Isn't it the same as something like alt-f which will open the file menu?
I've no idea. That might be a windows thing. I don't use Windows.
Scroll lock is still super useful for me, maybe they could just use the right control key.
I'm sure more people use right control than scroll lock.
Specially if they're touch typists and they use the Ctrl opposed to the letter key as one usually does with Shift.
If that is a defining quality of touch typists, I guess I'm far from one. My hand position moves all over the place as I type, but I haven't had to look for a key (or where my hand should go for whatever task) in a decade or so (I do have to look for a couple odd keys occasionally, only symbols I don't use frequently).
Just easier to crtl + a lot of keys with the same hand, then the hand slides right back to where it was (similar to how some people hit crtl + alt + del with one hand while others use two).
Clearly not a touch typist, then. The hands goes over the F and J (that's why the bumps are there on the keys, after all) and the fingers extend or fold to reach out to the other keys, but never move. And to use Shift with a key you use the one that's on the other hand than the one pressing the key. However, that's the formal version for typewriters, where you don't have extended sequence pressed with a change key. For long sequences of Ctrl+key, I tend to do as you do and use always the same Ctrl to press them all. However, individual Ctrl+key presses may benefit of the Right Ctrl key.
Multiple layouts for my native creates the need to engage in "mental modes" where your muscle memory tries to adapt to the layout you remember. I tend to configure the keyboard for the layout I use more frequently, even if it differs from the one printed in the keyboard. That makes for some confusing times for the rarer keys, though :)
If my fingers never moved, everything further right than the pipe would be out of reach. Not to mention the entirety of the number pad. I pay for 100+ keys, I'm using them damnit! Lol
On a lighter note, thanks for the engagement, even though we disagree its nice to hear someone's response!