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On SSH that button is a killer, even works in vim. For home I never found any use.
oh shit it actually goes to the beginning of a line, instant upgrade to god tier
... I'm curious what you thought it did
translate "home" from finnish to english ;)
Oh that's interesting. You thought it was a back key? That's very interesting to me as I've been using computers since before a 'back button' on browsers was a thing.
I actually thought it was like a reset button, like when using a browser, pressing home would put you into your home page. If the name was start, like end, I may have tried to actually use it for text editing.
And those who don't want to translate it, "Home" is "Mold" in Finnish, a running joke that the button is never used lol.
I've only had issues with embedded serial consoles and things where you have to swap ctrl-h/? for backspace. But usually it's solvable with key mapping.
Also you mention vi/m but insert is red? That's the toggle switch between insert and replace mode (i vs shift-R)
How long have you been programming?