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		Zecc on Sept 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Grave Accent and XSS It pisses me off to no end when software uses keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+` or even just ~. These are simply unusable with my keyboard.

kps on Sept 3, 2017 [–]

It pisses me off to no end when software uses keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+anything, unless it's using ASCII control characters (e.g. vi, emacs). Every *nix GUI toolkit knew this until the year-of-desktop-Linux crowd insisted on slavishly imitating every Windows mistake.

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