I almost feel like this a somewhat pointless feature. It's almost easier to just learn the default ones as opposed to adding "-modernbindings" or creating an "enano" variant/copy.

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    That's your opinion.

    I like updating it to modern conventions. One day they become default and on another day you get rid of the old ones. The people of the future don't have to learn two sets of keybindings.

    • CarbonScored [any]
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      3 months ago

      While I am usually resistant to change, I remain ever vigilant to try not be that XKCD guy

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.

      I would almost prefer them to just switch to the new keybindings by default in version 8.0.

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        It's definitely just my opinion. Honestly did not mean to imply otherwise.

        For my opinion I usually create a comment below my post to seperate my opinion and the post itself.

        On-topic: I do believe it's useful to have this switch and there's nothing stopping distros to change their default. Completely replacing the default keybindings might be surprising to long time users, but I also believe it should be done at some point. For the meantime this switch can be simply added as an alias.

        • Alphane Moon@lemmy.ml
          hexagon
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          3 months ago

          Fair point. I guess this was more of a casual post, so I didn't think too much about it.

          I would have preferred if they switched to new keyboard model in version 8.x by default.

          I am a relatively light Linux user. Raspberry Pi headless via DietPi/Debian for NAS/Media server/torrents/PiHole and some experiments with self hosted services on major cloud services. I prefer to stick to defaults whenever possible.

          • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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            3 months ago

            I prefer to stick to defaults whenever possible.

            Same goes for me.
            E.g. changing vim keybindings on my local system to better suit my non-QWERTY keyboard would be annoying since they don't transfer to remote systems. That's a reason I like fish, because it's defaults are modern and useable, compared to zsh/bash which benefits strongly from plugins.

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I got a temporary ban from, I suspect, the only mod in here to have personally blocked me. The mod log accuses me of breaking the rules 1 & 2. Based on the timing, it aligns with my comments in this post. They neither broke the community bulleted rules (about Linux, no misinformation), nor did they break rules of 1 & 2 of lemmy.ml. There was no bigotry, no racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia nor xenophobia. TThere were no individuals disrespected. I seek clarification of how my posts broke the rules, in DM's please. I am not seeking further ban, just clarification of how those rules cover the opinion that one editor is less than another, lacks necessary features when compared with editors more standard across POSIX compliant systems, and that relying upon its existence could lead to situations where one could be ill equipped for systems where it is not installed, due to it not being such a standard.

    I post this as a comment, as I cannot seem to message the entire group of moderators for this community all together, especially where one appears to be unreachable to me... something I don't think mods of a community should do or even be capable of if they are to carry out their duties properly.

    I ask the mods (preferably the mod who took the action, since no mod username is in the modlog... that's a separate issue) to DM me and delete this or message me here, which ever is preferred. Can't go navigating safely in here if the alleged offense wasn't clearly communicated and explained how it violated said rules. I'm not even sure which comment, specifically, was at issue. Right now it feels like something I said was just deeply unpopular with one or more mods, and summarily punished and random rules tossed out.

    I'll delete this in a few days if no mods respond. But clarification without further punishment would be appreciated.

    Thank you.