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		ygra on Sept 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped... That's why Ctrl+Alt hotkeys should be avoided completely. Someone hasn't told Jetbrains, though, and as a user of US International I run into a fair number of weird issues due to that.

Semaphor on Sept 22, 2021 [–]

> Someone hasn't told Jetbrains

They also didn’t tell Microsoft. Outlook, MS Teams, and Jetbrains IDEs are my main offenders (using the EURKey layout).

Recently tried a HN-recommended todo app. It actually registered some Ctrl+Alt combination as a global hotkey.

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