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I freaking LOVE keyboard shortcuts because I’m lazy they’re so efficient and a little effort to build muscle memory pays off big time… until it doesn’t! I learned computing on Windows so I learned the basic text cut, copy, paste and ctrl+arrows to move words at a time, adding shift to select text, closing tabs and windows, etc. But that was not super helpful when I started using the command line, in fact using those shortcuts made “bad” things happen. This got even worse when I had to use vi. Over time I’ve really come to like using the terminal and learned a few basic readline shortcuts and while I wouldn’t say I’m proficient, I rarely use the arrow keys. I’ve also come to really like vim-style modal editing but haven’t fully embraced the philosophy since I edit while I type like a heathen. I also use emacs but with evil-mode but while I’m in insert mode all those nifty readline shortcuts work nicely, except when they don’t. So, you’re starting the see the problem, I live across…

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