lexyeevee

troublesome fox girl

hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox



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in fact i use pause as the debug key in my games, specifically because it's unlikely to conflict with any regular binding anyone is likely to make

i rebound caps lock to be my compose key

and i think i would probably die without home/end/pgup/pgdn??

could not tell you what scroll lock does though. and num lock is weird as hell like why would i want to turn the numpad into a duplicate set of the keys right next to the numpad


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in reply to @blep's post:

I use scroll lock as my voice chat cough button, which speaks to how fuckin useless it is for its stated purpose (also confuses the shit out of me every time I start excel, which actually uses it for the thing it's intended to do -- keeping column and row headers onscreen as you scroll the body of a spreadsheet around)

who even is this guy

it emulates a right click! ... sometimes

Those are different buttons you're thinking of, they're usually accessed by holding fn and pressing one of the function keys, or are completely separate above the numpad, while there's also a key just labeled "pause" or "pause/break" above the navigation cluster with very little actual use cases

i do not use scroll lock or pause mostly because i don't really know what they do? but num lock i use to switch between typing numbers and windows' mousekeys, and then when you're using mousekeys that last button lets you right-click on things so it's real handy. you're right though caps lock should be a regular key size

Personally I never used the home/page keys until I got a keyboard with a 75% layout that placed them right next to the arrow keys, now I use them constantly. Not having to move the hand a big amount really made a difference for me in how often I thought to use them.

I also use the funny key often, it does a right click, which is nice when navigating a file explorer without using a mouse (im weird sometimes).

Numlock is useful bc it lets me swap to mousekeys instantly, should my mouse ever die.
The entire like, ins/del/home whatever island is also set to a lotta stuff in my art program since I roll my own keybinds in those. (The default keybinds are always made assuming you're okay with hunting and pecking based on broken pneumonics like B for Brush, F for Fill but only with shift) OR that you're using your left hand to operate the keyboard as you draw which I am NAWT.

The who even is this guy thing tho, uh. That's the "I hit this by accident instead of the FN key and now I'm mildly exasperated that I have to move my hand off the keyboard to left click and get rid of the context menu" key.

Scroll Lock and Num Lock are unfortunately useful in Emacs because of course they are, it's one of the only programs that's actually old enough to remember how numpads worked in the before-times so when I'm using a keyboard that has a numpad it's actually kind of nice to have the layers of functionality for text traversal/manipulation. Also the menu key is good but I only get to use it for the both times a year I'm using some program on Linux will bother to react to me pressing it by opening a context menu that contains options I might care about.

the app key (that's the mystery guy) is Right Click But It's A Key and I guess it's pretty common in workflows for blind users? Scroll lock is a useful concept but hardly anyone uses terminal software anymore and I don't even know how much software actually supports it. Very rarely do I have occasion to turn num lock off but it does happen. It's even more likely if you're using a reduced footprint keyboard. Pause/Break is basically only useful in the sense it's a completely unused key you can bind things to, a TINY amount of software uses it for its stated purpose.

Caps lock can go to hell. I use the caps lock key a lot, but never for the function of toggling between upper and lower case, always for some other thing bound to it as a large key in a conspicuous place, and it fucking up my text is just an unwelcome side effect.

Oh hey I (kinda) use some of those keys! I have Insert bound as my compose key (because it inserts new characters, get it?), and Scroll Lock bound to opening a terminal (it opens Yakuake, the kind of terminal which scrolls down from the top of the screen, so, Scroll Lock lets a thing scroll, get it??). Home/End are very useful when I'm writing text or code outside of Vim. PageUp/Down are helpful when using a web browser without a mouse; they scroll a good amount by themselves, and can switch to other tabs when holding Ctrl. Don't have any use for Caps Lock, Num Lock, Pause, or Menu, though.

numlock is nice in excel; I will toggle between to use the arrow functions to navigate and then swap to enter numbers (side note: Secret Trick is holding shift to temporarily toggle between them--you can hold shift to get the arrows while locked or numbers while unlocked)

I am slowly becoming heavily dependent on home/end; a critical method of navigating command lines and extremely convenient in composotion software.

in reply to @lexyeevee's post:

I think home/end/pgup/pgdn are mostly redundant to mac people where you can get those same navigation behaviors more comfortably with cmd + arrow keys (or if you’re a sicko like me, the emacs C-a, C-e, etc.)

my laptop keyboard has numpad but lacks the home/end/etc keys (and the arrow keys are tiny), so i rebound numlock-off layout to the arrows and home/end/etc keys, while numlock-on can remain being a numpad

(and then i always keep numlock off)

My daily OS is RISC OS, so ‘Pause’ is actually Break, which reboots. Scroll Lock actually does stop the scrolling at the command line (outside the desktop, don’t ask me to explain). Num Lock would be important if I didn’t have cursor keys, but who’d choose to have no cursor keys?! And the Menu key duplicates the middle mouse button (which is also called Menu in RO).

Ah no, I run RISC OS in an emulator within Windows, with pretty tight integration with the host OS. If I click on a link in an app or double-click on an HTML or URL/URI in RO then it opens in the host OS browser – usually Chrome here.
I would advise AGAINST using a browser inside an operating system that has absolutely zero memory protection; where every task and module can read AND WRITE into the memory of any task including a browser; and where every keypress is flagged by many easily-accessible APIs.
I would STRONGLY advise against that!

RO has memory protection for apps in that executables are paged into the same region of memory (the Application Slot) at the same address – one at a time. So only one app is in the logical memory map at a time (fun fact: Not only is this exactly like the “sideways ROMs” of the BBC Micro upon which the RO kernel is based, it’s also the exact same address – &8000).

However, the “Wimp_TransferBlock” SWI allows any app to read or write the memory of any other task at any time(!); FilterManager allows any module to be called whenever the Wimp has paged in an app and is about to return an event to it (and can suppress or modify it); and modules have access to the various OS Vectors for managing keypresses, buffering, even line input at the command line.

It is staggeringly unsafe... and that’s why I use it all the time. I can make it do anything I want. However, I would not use a browser in there if I had an alternative!

The emulator I’ve used for 20+ years is VirtualRPC – a commercial product for Windows that isn’t really available any more (at least not this super-duper version). Crucially there’s a mechanism that allows RISC OS code to access the whole of the Windows API; there’s a shared clipboard; the HostFS filing system within the emulator presents any number of host mounts as “hard discs” within RO (even USB sticks and so on).

So it’s not so much an emulation of an old machine as my preferred environment for living with Windows.

I bound scroll lock to toggle my mouse gestures app on and off, and then set my mouse thumb button to scroll lock so that I can change it easily. Basically I just use it as a passthrough lol

The num lock key keeps turning itself off on my laptop, which is infuriating 'cause every time it happens it takes me a second to realize why my numpad isn't working.
The only time I've ever actually needed to use it was at an old job, where the propriety inventory software wouldn't let you scroll any other way than turning off the numpad to use "page up " and "page down"

I was about to say that numlock was useful on my family's old original IBM PC with the Model F keyboard, but back then I was a kid only playing games and never entering that many numbers so it was useless to me in the other direction.