Undoubtedly, programmers are a major user of keyboards, and IDE developers love function keys for esoteric shortcuts for debugging, moving around, and running code. So why do so many split keyboards not actually have the function keys.

I think makers are missing out a huge audience.

  • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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    29 days ago

    My additions:

    • F5: Also quicksave in most games
    • F6: Also selects the “url bar” in most browsers, and Everything (by voidtools - very cools file-search tool. The literal best, even)
    • F8-F11: user for debugging in vcode