Obscure button tier list

Home is God-tier, just as useful as End when editing stuff.

You don't use Home? Home and End are my two most used keys on this list. IDEs move your cursor to the beginning of the line but after the indents. It's God -tier.

Home is pretty useful actually, just like end. Ins can go fuck itself

You never use the home button? Do you also not use the terminal?

For those learning how good Home is, wait until you try CTRL + Home. Start of the file.

Also see: CTRL + End

They are all useful, except for maybe Pause. Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert ist like Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, but it works in terminals too. Home goes to the beginning of the line. Shift+Home marks the line from current position until the beginning.

I use all of these keys except scroll lock. Mainly because there aren't any software vendors that support the function anymore, and nobody has had the innovation to use it for anything new.

I use insert regularly, delete all the time. Home and end, pretty much daily.... Print screen sometimes (though I usually use a screen snippet tool instead), and pause is used in some keyboard shortcuts in Windows that are very helpful.

Idk why we're picking on insert and pause when F12 is right there. Seriously, does anyone use any F keys beyond F5? If you do, is your scope then limited to F1/F2/F5? Maybe add alt+F4?

All the F keys do stuff. But in my experience, 90+ % of the time nobody knows what those things are. One of my personal favorites is F2 which is generally used as a shortcut to "rename". It's very helpful. Honorable mention to F5 for all the reasons you would expect.

Meanwhile, there's people like OP throwing shade at our good friend "home".... What are you saying OP? Are you to good for your home?

I use pgup/pgdn every day. Especially with terminal multiplexers, as I am unaware of how to view the scrollback buffer of long outputs faster than a quick couple of pgup's.

Space Engineers players are fuming

You can take my ins from my cold dead hands!

On a serious note, the PC keyboard seriously needs a revamp. Scroll Lock? What does that even do nowadays?

what, no SysRq?

boo!

Smells like windows if End is God Tier but Home isn't. On the command line being without either would kill my speed something fierce

Insert is extremely useful in any editing situation. Right after Find and Replace.

My work laptop has pg up and pg down as a secondary on the up and down arrows. It's such a threat to be able to move up and down a page with just pressing fn and the arrow keys

If you don't need it just use it as keybind for something else.

I love to bind push to talk on my beloved ScrLk as it is not interfering with any other shortcut!

I never used to use Home and End until I put them on a layer right next to my home row. Now I can't live without them. Position really makes a difference!

on debian based system PrntScr actually prints stuff you're looking at in a terminal, if a printer is configured. learned that the hard way, accidentally printing hundreds of pages of html source

I'll take home over pgup/down any day.

Also Menu key is pretty obscure, I consider it a yellow, since it's useful when you don't have a mouse, but there are other shortcuts that can do it (shift+f10)

Pause is useless but only because escape steals all it's usecases in apps.The only tool I know that uses it prominently is Windbg

Ins is so much more deserving of an indicator light than scroll lock - I almost never want Ins engaged in it's normal meaning... I'd rather just delete word and retype the whole thing.

I use all of these except ScrollLock.

What about the CapsLock key? Windows menu key?

Most tier lists use a tabular format, often horizontal. This one looks like a table organized vertically. Except it's neither and instead uses color, but isn't R/G colorblindness the most common form? Anyway, I'm saying that I found it confusing.

Then again, you posted infinitely more to Lemmy today than I did (at zero:-P), so there is no need at all to listen to my whining if you aren't interested in such feedback on presentation style:-D.

Where's the Copilot key?

No one's gonna throw shade at the ≣ key? Aka the Menu Key?

It's next to useless. It's almost always used to open the right-click menu, which is specifically for GUIs and based on the mouse position... so why not just right-click? What silly person is using their mouse except to bring up the context menu?

I'd say the same about the Super Key (❖) Aka The Windows Key, but I got i3wm on my laptop and I am loving having a GUI without needing to use my mortal enemy: the Trackpad. Plus it's a minor time-save above moving windows/clicking menus with the mouse; still doesn't apply to Menu when your finger's already hovering over the RMB.

Where's the 'PtrSc' key? On Peter's keyboard presumably.

Pressing ScrLk twice and then the number of the port switches to this port on the KVM switch in the office. Very specific use case, but still.

Pause ... I have no idea. If I remember correctly you can, well, pause terminal output with it, but I never tried.

The rest of the keys I use regularly.

I saw the picture before reading the edit and was trying to imagine what OP was doing that made the end key significantly more useful than the home key, like not going backwards on principle or something.

Ctrl+ pgup/ pgdn.

Moving tabs in Vscode or browsers.

God Tier on thinkpad keyboard.

What about the Any key?

Don't take my pause key from me that's the best key! I just want pausable games to bind with that key again like they used to, guys it's right there by name and everything. Just started playing rollercoaster tycoon 2 again and, after the mandatory drowning of the first person I saw, I was delighted to find the pause key pauses the game. Even better is if I need to take a break from something pause/break is inclusive of it all. I can walk away from what I'm up to for minute and don't have to worry that the machine is going to feel abandoned because it's right there on the key just taking a break little buddy I'll be back.

I must be in the minority. I haven’t used any of these keys in over a decade. Probably more like 15 years at this point. Command + something can replace almost all of these, so why waste an extra key on it.

Okay I'll bite..: How are PgUp and PgDown yellow, when Menu is missing from the list?

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What about Menu?

I was about to say home being useful cause it helps to get to the beginning of the page but its already mentioned in the description of the post 😂😂😂

Don't you dare come for my Pause key! That's the one I've remapped to launch the screen lock!

Personally I'd put home in green and del in yellow, I've got home and end mapped to the left and right of my up arrow key (for some reason Lenovo decided in their infinite wisdom to put pgup and pgdn there) and it makes it far faster to get around text editors

Fellow deutans, fuck you