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skydhash a day ago

I know devs that still right click for copy and paste.

cxr a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know what function the word "still" is intended to perform in this sentence. I, too, copy and paste using the context menu—sometimes, i.e.: when it is most appropriate and/or convenient to do so.

But the question is: what developers don't know about the standard keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste? Do they exist in any statistically significant numbers? ("There exists X" is not a very meaningful contribution if the Xs involved are something like 0.01% and are outnumbered by the number of programmers who write all their code on their mobile phone or whose version control strategy is to inscribe all their programs on a Tic Tac or a grain of rice or who think that Commodore 64-inspired homegrown operating systems are specially positioned to reveal the Word of God and offer protection against being pursued and persecuted by the CIA. Or are these some special breed of 9-to-5 darkmatter programmers who aren't going to show up on the radar, anyway?)

jayd16 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Its safer in an unfamiliar terminal than accidentally killing the app with Ctrl-c.

JulianWasTaken a day ago | parent | next [-]

Always a take which sprouts vehement arguments, but this is something macOS gets extremely right, as Cmd-C, Cmd-V, etc. indeed work everywhere including the terminal, and Ctrl-C in the terminal is reliably SIGINT.

3eb7988a1663 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I also criss cross enough different terminals and systems that I never know if it is Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Shift-C. Same with paste.

dotancohen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Try Shift-Insert. Works everywhere, never overloaded by something destructive.

silon42 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It would be nice if we could use Ctrl+Break instead of Ctrl+C... also, use SysRq instead of Ctrl+Z.

mixmastamyk 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Rare to have these on a laptop. Sometimes you can find an non standard alternative key combo.

moffkalast a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Legacy bullshit from the 70s still making people facedesk today and probably for the next hundred years or more. At least ctrl-shift-c and ctrl-shift-v are now somewhat more common.