Keyboard Shortcuts

I use several GUIs every day: my phone is probably the least keyboard intensive. But while I've got my desktop set up to be mostly keyboard controlled, I still use a trackball for, oh, games, GIMP, DarkTable, that sort of thing. I'm mostly in a tabbed WM, though, so no mousing there. And I use a bunch of TUI applications, all of which have their own key bindings. Oddly, when I use applications that require a mouse, I mostly just use the mouse and not key bindings.

I don't like having to constantly move my hands between the keyboard and mouse, and none of the TUI apps that i can think of use ^s for save or ^z for undo.

But to answer your implied question: I haven't had to use Windows since... 2003? -ish? And even then it was only a couple of years; my first job out of college in 1996 let me run Linux on my workstation, and that lasted until 2000. Then I didn't have a choice for a couple of years, between 2000 and 2003, when Macs started being fashionable, and I used those at work until 2016 or so. After 2016, I've been in positions where I had enough pull to dictate my work environment, and it's been all Linux.

During the Mac years, the hotkeys were all ⌘- and don't hold the same space in my head; like, ctrl-s and ⌘-s may do the same thing, but if you day "ctrl-s" I don't translate it to "⌘-s" because Macs also have a separate ctrl-s which is different. Also, on the Macs I spent most of my time in terminals, anyway.

Yeah, I feel you. I'm in that space now and it's uncomfortable, and I'm always keeping an eye out for a solution.

I have:

• the WM, with its key bindings, running
• the terminal, with its (mercifully few) key bindings, running
• tmux, with a bunch of key bindings, running
• helix, with a vast number of key bindings.

And that's ignoring readline, which Helix uses sometimes and the shell always does.

The nesting is admittedly absurd. The thing keeping me sane is that I'm strict about keeping the bindings the same, varying only by command key. Mod4-l focuses right in the WM, long-press-h-l (QMK yay) focuses right one pane in tmux. I haven't rebound Helix pane movement, but I rarely use windows in Helix.

But I still get befuddled sometimes. Too many nested panels and layers of key bindings. I need to find a solution for it, eventually.

Yeah, it's system wide from the ol' days.