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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)

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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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[-] Maven 32 points 8 months ago

I pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It's a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Fair enough. Alt used to be that before we decided to have a button to annoyingly pop up the menu strip. And there's still Alt Gr for that in full sized keyboards if we want to go back that way.

[-] Maven 9 points 8 months ago

Alt Gr is something else. Non-english keyboards use it all day every day for typing their charactersets.

It could probably replace the right OS key, though.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah and even on many english keyboards it is used to show special characters

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Been coding in vim for decades without that key

[-] Maven 1 points 8 months ago

Okay?

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