Dmitry Kandalov @mastodon.social I've been programming since DOS times. I spent around 20 years in Java lands, most recently working with server-side Kotlin.
@breadsmasher Yes, and AFAIK none of them are based on any research or actual design. The XKCD is really valid. Maybe it should be a coordinated attempt by couple popular text editors.
You can't standardise everything, but the basic most common actions could be. There is already a small subset which works across the majority of editors, ctrl/cmd+ZXCV for example.
Someone (maybe a company making software development tools, e.g. 😉) should do research and design properly ergonomic keyboard shortcuts for code editors. It's tiring to see different and
Someone (maybe a company making software development tools, e.g. @jetbrains 😉) should do research and design properly ergonomic keyboard shortcuts for code editors. It's tiring to see different and mostly "accidental" shortcuts everywhere.