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Ummm... copy and paste?

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V isn't exactly the same thing as drag 'n' drop...

On my Macbook, my windows often always overlap because the resolution just isn't high enough to "stretch out." So, I find that dragging and dropping is actually more difficult due to having to switch windows.

Select, middle mouse button click is copy and paste where I come from, and it's lack is the single most uncomfortable aspect of working in Windows or Mac OS X for me.

Mac supposedly allows you to drag&drop code without explicit copy&paste.

That may be true but that is such a minor thing. I use OS X and Linux... definitely not something that ever makes a difference.

you don't mind not having page-up/page-down keys?

macs do have page up and page down keys

Really?

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/15839.jpg

Yes really, look at the up and down arrow keys.

what i meant is a dedicated key that when pressed will trigger a page-up/page-down event. on the mac you have to press a modifier key to make it go. most of the time this is ok (and i don't really mind it whilst in emacs ctrl-v/meta-v are basically the same thing) except that you can press ctrl-pageup/down on firefox to toggle the tabs. on the mac you have to press ctrl-mod-pageup/down ... same goes for gnome-terminal. i don't feel like turning my fingers into a pretzel for no good reason.

Yeah, not having home/end, pgup/dn, is a huge pain in the butt. I never realized how much I used them for navigating within textboxes. Especially in combination with shift and control.

In general expect to spend a good amount of time reacclimatizing on keybindings when going from PC to mac worlds. I find myself constantly guessing what modifier (shift, fn, cmd, ctrl, alt) to replace in this keybinding to get it to work.

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