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skydhash 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)

Terminal UX existed before the CUA guidelines from IBM. People complains about Ctrl + Shift + C behavior when it exists only in one category of application, terminal emulators.

eviks 3 months ago | [–]

Age doesn't matter, usability and consistency does, so that's a valid complaint towards all those hostile apps that haven't changed the defaults

bitwize 3 months ago | [–]

This is why Apple gave Macs a command key in 1984. Control is for sending control cides; command is for issuing commands!

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