Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

  • PillowD@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Linux. Windows is used for Russian oligarchs.

    Since people are expecting windows shortcut keys, I nominate TAB navigation. Hitting tab will cycle the focus through all the buttons and edit boxes. Shift Tab to go backwards.

  • Imhotep@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    (Linux)

    Add the same symbol at the beginning of most aliases. I use é

    So when I type é+tab I get all my aliases

    é+first letters of alias+tab and I’m sure autocomplete will select the alias and not another command

  • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Ok, windows “hacks” I use at work.

    There’s a setting in windows that opens snipping tool when print screen is pressed. This allows to select a screen, window or a rectangle. More than that, it also has screen recording functionality. Very good for quick screen grabs with no additional software required.

    Useful for multilinguals out there. Windows (and some linux distros) have an option to bind keyboard layout selection to open windows, meaning alt+tab’ing no longer requires switching between languages.

    EDIT:
    A phone thing. Some keyboards have whitespace and backspace drag functionality, that allows to move the cursor or highlight and delete text without blocking your view with your fat fingrers.

    ANOTHER EDIT:
    Having a mouse with at least two thumb buttons is a god send. Moving backwards and forwards between application pages is very useful.

    Also, for devs. Go through you IDE shortcut settings and configure (ctrl|shift|alt)+click shortcuts. Having mouse controls to navigate between declarations, usages and implementations of different code elements with intention is awesome.
    In the same vein: ctrl+(f|r) and ctrl+shift+(f|r) for find or replace in file or whole project respectively is really common use case.
    Have multicarret shortcuts that allow edits in multiple lines at once. Don’t forget to add shortcuts like alt+(up|down) to move selected lines up and down.
    Configure shortcuts for code folding like ctrl+numpad+ and ctlr+numpad- to expand and hide current block or combine with shift to manipulate the whole file.
    And for gods sake use home and end keys, combined with ctrl and shift it allows for efficient navigation and selection within a file. Combine it with multicarret support and ctrl+side_arrow_keys and you have a way to sync multiple carrets and efficiently edit multiple lines.

    Finnaly: f1 – help, f2 – rename, f5 – refresh / run, optionally with ctrl, f11 – fullscreen, f12 – devtools.

  • JamonBear@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    7 hours ago

    Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless. Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc…

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Why have I not been doing this?! Just removed the “2 years old” .world banner.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Just getting people to switch away from chrome to get ublock origin is a major hack all itself and completely changed the way you use the internet.

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    9 hours ago

    Yay, nobody said my favorite hack.

    While browsing on the web and you want to “open link into a new tab”, click using the mouse wheel like it’s a regular left or right click.

    It’s great for researching.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 hours ago

    Wait until you learn about vim keybindings. Instead of moving your hand to the arrow keys, you can stay on the homerow and movie up down left right from there.

  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 hours ago

    Far from most used, but very handy: ctrl+win+shift+b

    It restarts the graphic subsystem, which can help recover from situations where game crashes or similar cause visual issues.

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
    91·
    12 hours ago

    Actually use Home and End keys to get to the start and end of text.

    Ctrl + F for searching text. Very useful.

    Alt + Tab for window switching.

    Linux + USB drive to switch away from Windows.

    • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Combine home and end with ctrl to move to the start or end of the file. As a dev I use this a lot.

      I also have keyboard shortcuts for code folding and mouse shortcuts to navigate between usages, declarations and implementations. Onboarding people is a slog when they don’t have the same shortcuts.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    • Double clicking with the mouse on a word usually selects the whole word with the space after, very nice for copy-pasting.

    • Double clicking on the selected word will sometimes select the whole line(In some applications it actually selects up to the newline marker, so it will grab multiple lines if resized smaller).

  • BigPotato@lemmy.world
    4·
    12 hours ago

    Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I’m on a roll.

    • Mr. Satan@lemmy.zip
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Not a computer hack, but some phone keyboards have backspace and whitespace drag, the former allowing to select a range form the cursor to delete and the latter moving the cursor. Way more usable than trying to fat finger cursor position and selection.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    1. Shift + Tab (also works on Linux)

    2. If you have a mouse with side buttons, you can use the side buttons to go back or go to the next page on browsers

    3. Pressing Alt + F4 on the desktop opens up a dialog asking if you want to shut down, restart, log out, etc. (I think this works on Linux as well)