Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-V, How Much Do You Use the ol' Short Cut Key

this was prompted in part by whoever it was on here who worked in an office where somewhere printed out a Word file and retyped the contents into an email, heh.

Mice are obviously v useful things (props to Mr Englebart) but I wouldn't dream of say, going to Paste on a Windows toolbar and I rarely use the button on the toolbar either. It just seems faster to use Ctrl-V and I feel a sense of ergonomic superiority therefrom which is possibly quite illusory!

On my old laptop, the mouse is nearly completely shot, so I end up doing *everything* - or at least as much as possible by keyboard commands. I got really into Home and End and things like that, as well as control-shift-arrow to highlight whole words or sentances.

On MS programs, I tend to use shortcuts a LOT. Not so much on programs like Photoshop, because you end up having to have these weird claw-configurations like control-shift-alt-E and things like that which are very hard to do single-handedly.

The copy-paste into the filename thing bothers me, though. I never do it, because I'm too scared that I'll end up overwriting something important by mistake. HSA always does it and it irritates me.

I am more addicted to right mouse clicking than I am to claw-keyboard-commands.

I use Pine for email at home.

Non MS text editors such as Ultra Edit and TextPad, whilst much better than Notepad and Wordpad in terms of functionality are ANNOYING coz the shortcut keys are DIFFERENT and it takes a while for my brain to adjust. Mind you, until recently I had a wheelie mouse on the computer on the r/h side of the desk and a non-wheelie on the l/h side, leading to ineffectual STROKING of the l/h one from time to time.

I say ineffectual - it might have enjoyed it....

I've had to record a macro shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+P) for Paste as Values
Now I feel stupid for not having done this already... although Alt+e, s, v isn't too bad.

Yeah, not having a right mouse click is just patently STOOPID.
Right-clicking is indeed ace, although I'm currently trying to teach myself to love the "right-click" key on the keyboard in order to save yet some more milliseconds and hand-movement muscle energy.

(Talk about involuntary typing reflexes, when I first typed that, it said mice like to be Strokes. Sigh. Shoot me.)

to the Photoshop! Let's go!

Anyone who photoshops pictures of mice with fat asses or bad afros gets A BEATDOWN!!! I'm warnin' ya!

The. :)

On my keyboard it has a picture of a drop-down menu on it, and is located on the right half of the bottom row. (The full bottom row is Ctrl, Windows, Alt, Space, AltGr, Windows, Right click, Ctrl.)

I'd say it was for the illusion of speed, but I use alt and the direction keys for the upper menu (alt t l t = msword thesaurus), which is well slow, so I think I just have a severe case of mouse-aversion. Except in editpad and phoenix, where the right mouse button is essential for resorting/saving/refreshing/closing different tabs.

...I fear this mythical right-click key. I think I may have pressed it by accident and promptly killed whatever I was working on at some point.

Also, re "Rename" shenanigans, surely there must be a way of adding a CopyFileName to the dropdown?

This reminded me of when I was doing my writing diploma though. In the DTP class one guy (who was hilarious) would always stuff up and shriek "apple Vee! Apple VEE!" when he did. I always think of that when I undo even tho I dont use a Mac.

Once when putting on lippy I sodded it up, and my first thought was "oops - undo!"

I think I use pooters too much :(

Ive had too many Strongbows.

I'm used to THREE buttons godammnit

I use shortcuts so much I spend more time thinking of better ways to do things than time saved. For file management these days I drop into unix more and more so i can grep and pipe and mv and sed away smashing.

The only person I saw using a three button mouse had a computer running the RISC OS, but there again I can't remember what the third button did.

roughly, menu is like the right mouse button on a 2-button mouse, adjust is like holding down ctrl or shift to deselect individual items in a selection

TALKING OF WHICH.

BBC News Item Man gets sued for pointing out that "Holding down shift-key disables autoruns".

And CtrlAltDel far too often.

ctrl alt del - oh yes

and then only really ctrl v and ctrl c

I use loads on sim golf though

plus, since every other post i make on here either quotes or has an image in it, i use it 50% of the time on here, too.

I love shortcuts, vi is shortcuts taken too far though.
CTRL J is a life saver.

Link to all the main keyboard shortcuts in xemacs:
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/xemacs_33.html#SEC413

Also Ctrl+D to delete in Unix -- crucial in OS X.