Alt-drag trips me up all the time too

Story: Things I Do in Windows When I Forget It's Not LinuxTotal Replies: 5
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mrider

Oct 30, 2014
11:13 AM EDT
Alt-drag and mouse middle button paste are my bugaboos.

I have installed the WIN32 port of the GNU tools (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) in my path, so I don't get tripped up by "ls" and its ilk. For the few other things that I perennially type wrong, I create a batch file that performs the equivalent. For example I have a batch file called "clear.bat" that simply has "cls" inside.
750

Oct 30, 2014
12:12 PM EDT
Firefox going from alt+number for tabs to ctrl+number.
mrider

Oct 30, 2014
1:09 PM EDT
@750 - I never ran into that trick. I always use ctrl + tab to cycle through. Using the tab number is at least 10 times more efficient. Thanks!
750

Oct 30, 2014
1:19 PM EDT
Heh. It's so ingrained in my browser usage that i could never quite get into using Opera because it didn't support that.
gus3

Oct 30, 2014
1:48 PM EDT
When did FF make that switch? My up-to-date version still uses Alt-number.
750

Oct 30, 2014
4:08 PM EDT
FF has always used alt+numbers on Linux, but it uses ctrl+numbers on Windows.

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