It's true they would probably be more useful to the average keyboard user than say the scroll lock key, or the fucking copilot key. But to be really useful, they would have to be easily accessible without moving you bands, or else it'd just be faster to use a shortcut. Keyboards with macro keys do exist so maybe get one and map them to CTRL+C/V
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Do them 100000 times and see how comfortable they feel
I've seen a few that do that, actually. Like a media keyboard with buttons for music controls, there are some that have additional functions like copy, paste, cut, double space, double enter, etc.
Now that you've said it, it does seem like an obvious improvement.
I'm pretty happy working as a developer where I can choose my own editor. (Neo)Vim, Kakoune, now Helix, they all just have one single key used for copying (/"yanking") text to a register: y, and it's bloody fast. I can't even use VS Code without a Vim or Helix or Kakoune emulator extension. But of course I prefer to use the faster, pure terminal applications.
To be honest I'm not really that great with Vim actions anymore. Even if I was using it for about a decade. The Kakoune and Helix model just made too much sense.
If you have a QMK compatible keyboard you can do that.
Get a VIA or QMK customizable keeb and you can make any key into any key you want.
Some keyboards have media keys for that. Some user environments also allow you to remap those keys to other functions.
I think we should have MORE combination buttons! Typing should be like playing the piano imo
Even if we just had one more, it'd open up a huge new range of possibilities. Ctrl, Shift, Alt and now Var (or whatever)
As well as the 26 new Var + _ combinations you'd be able to have:
- Shift + Var + _
- Ctrl + Var + _
- Alt + Var + _
- Shift + Ctrl + Var + _
- Shift + Alt + Var + _
- Alt + Ctrl + Var + _
- Shift + Ctrl + Alt + Var + _
Hundreds of new shortcuts! As long as you could remember them of course :-)
Mech keyboard nerds are laughing in QMK...
Barring that, for Windows there's Auto-Hotkeys or MKLC (Win10)/Keyboard Manager (Win11). For Linux, I use Input Remapper for remapping mouse keys, but it works for keyboards too.
Seems like it would be more useful macro'd to extra mouse buttons.
Keyboard only people are plenty comfortable with frequent shortcuts.
I have a mouse with programmable (ish) keys and I have some buttons assigned to copy paste. I like it.
Some of us... Do.