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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by krotti@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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If you have "Help" instead of "Ins", replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come.

OC, feel free to share.

EDIT; Home is now G-od tier. I didn't know it would go to the beginning of a line, I always used macros "lol".

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can take my ins from my cold dead hands!

[–] KrapKake@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember at one point when I was younger and newer to computers I was typing a document for school and being driven nuts by the damn insert key. Like I had zero clue as to why everything I was typing was just being overwritten every time I needed to go back and change something. I still think the insert key is absolutey evil!

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

I had a similar experience, but after I eventually figured it out, I grew to appreciate the insert key. Mostly because there were a few times when someone else was getting frustrated with the same problem and I was able to help them. It made me feel powerful; I had suffered, but I now possessed the knowledge to save others from the same fate.

[–] Mir@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do you use it for

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Two things

  1. Overwriting existing text
  2. Some legacy scheduling software I use at work, where ctrl+ins inserts the copied day for a given coworker. Useful if you need to swap days in the schedule and a coworker has 3 different classes in as many rooms, and in some classes there are students from multiple courses. It's archaic, but it saves time.
[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. Shift+ins to paste in the shell
[–] docAvid@midwest.social 0 points 10 months ago

What shell is that? Bash and sh use Emacs bindings, C-y. Or if you meant terminal, urxvt and I'm pretty sure xterm use C-M-v. Maybe that's the gnome terminal?

[–] Mir@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Ohh thank you

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For entering overwrite text mode?

[–] Mir@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you