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Keyboards and Clipboards |
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November 04th, 2017 |
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Real quick notes tonight. First, there was some chatter on |
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Mastodon earlier about terminal emulators leading me to remark how |
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I'm still using konsole here on my laptop because I haven't quite |
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cracked the nut on xterm clipboards. Well, that's not quite |
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accurate anymore. I do have a decent copypasta going now via tmux |
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locally using xsel and tmux-yank. It seems promising, so I may |
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give xterm a go in the not-so distant future. It performs so much |
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better with almost no memory footprint. That could be cool. |
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Sad thing, though... tmux-yank says I should be able to copy |
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& paste over remote terminal sessions if I have xsel on the remote |
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and do a few other minor thingies. So far, no luck there. I would |
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love to be able to cut & paste to SDF or at least the meta array, |
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but that will have to wait. xterm first! |
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Also, welcome to our happy gopher land to elsa [0]. She wrote |
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about using dvorak at work and qwerty at home. I'm a dvorak user |
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but didn't do it as smart as elsa. I transfered to this layout |
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when I was in religious life and not using a computer for work. |
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For that reason, I chose to switch completely all at once. As |
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a result, I really can't type in qwerty anymore. She seems to be |
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able to swap back and forth (even if it does take a paragraph to |
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do it). That's a super-power as far as I'm concerned. I also agree |
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that it's short sighted to continue teaching qwerty over dvorak, |
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or even colemak. I understand the things that lead to that |
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continuation, the things already in motion, but I think they're stupid. |
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Learn to type in a way that makes sense and does the least damage. |
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Rock on, elsa. Looking forward to more phosts! |
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[0] elsa - A City of Mine Own |
