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I was so sad when I specifically ordered an HP laptop for work (The other choice was Dell) to get the keyboard with a trackpoint on it, only to find out that the HP layout only has two buttons.

It turns out my years of ThinkPad training has given me permanent muscle memory that the button underneath the middle of the space bar is middle mouse and therefore paste :)




And there is no Insert button, so you need to do a convoluted Ctrl/Shift-Fn-E combo to copy/paste in the terminal.


Worst part: they got rid of the insert key to accommodate dedicated call and hangup keys for MS Teams.


I feel personally attacked :(


That's unconscionable.


  xcape -e "Control_R=Insert"


til. Thanks that solves another problem I have now that I've drunk the Moonlander keyboard kool-aid.




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