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