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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

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[–] MudMan@kbin.social 26 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I don't remember the last time I pressed the "right click" contextual menu key, so honestly it's not like it'll be too annoying. Unless they do replace an actually useful key, at which point I guess the people making "make Windows actually work good" apps will get to live another year.

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I pressed it like, 20 minutes ago? It's a pretty normal part of a lot of coding workflow, not to mention browsing, accessing context menu keyboard shortcuts without having to move your hand to the mouse for one buttonpress.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Alt used to be that before we decided to have a button to annoyingly pop up the menu strip. And there's still Alt Gr for that in full sized keyboards if we want to go back that way.

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alt Gr is something else. Non-english keyboards use it all day every day for typing their charactersets.

It could probably replace the right OS key, though.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah and even on many english keyboards it is used to show special characters

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Been coding in vim for decades without that key

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the key I use as a compose key

[–] snowe@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never even heard of this key that you are talking about, yet it’s mentioned several times in this thread.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the key

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

thanks for the picture. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Just to check, I went over and looked at my wife's work laptop and it's not on that keyboard, but it is on her external keyboard, but not as a separate key, it's part of the print screen button!

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 10 months ago

I use it as a Compose key with WinCompose.

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I use the app/menu all the time in Excel.