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Micro doesn't need to list the shortcuts because it uses similar shortcuts to notepad and you don't have to do weird ctrl+x to exit but ctrl+q (for quit). Also copy and pasting isn't a nightmare in it.
Copy and paste in nano work just fine - no clue what you're talking about. It uses standards established in the '80s - Ctrl-X for eXit being an even older standard - and clearly lists them visibly for a quick reminder.
Yeah cutting text with ctrl+k instead of ctrl+x (because that's exit) and copying with alt +6 instead of ctrl+c.
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Mao.
In emacs ctrl+y is paste, which is weird to me because i'm pretty sure even in emacs the logic is that y stands for yank, but in every other program i've used so far yank means copy, not paste. In the end though i feel like muscle memory from other editors don't bother me as much, and i can learn multiple at the same time. I started with evil mode for vim bindings for a short while, but now i'm diving into pure emacs bindings.
Yeah, that's what the shortcut hint shows, champ.
Why doesn't my Lemmy comment box show shortcut hints? How will I know the shortcut for copy, cut and paste? I tried pressing alt+6 but it did nothing. Curse you Ecmascript from 1997!
Which command-line program are you using to access Lemmy?
Should only command line programs show their keyboard shortcuts?
This entire post is about terminal-based editors, buddy.