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Well you can just have different scrolling, eg hold the super key and scroll with the mouse or use four fingers at once on a trackpad. I feel like this is asking the question of whether the TAB key will indent or switch controls or switch to a different window or whatever when you have an ordinary wm.


> eg hold the super key and scroll with the mouse

This leads to the kind of unexpected behaviour I am talking about, where muscle memory gets tangled up or you're working quickly and you do the action you want for one scroll while accidentally still holding down the modifier key.

When there's scrolling at so many levels in e.g. web content, binding yet more things to different modified scrolling motions is a bad idea.

If gestures work (big if, in my experience, in a system that unless something has changed really recently still has less than stellar trackpad implementations) then it would be less painful.

> I feel like this is asking the question of whether the TAB key will indent or switch controls or switch to a different window or whatever when you have an ordinary wm.

Not something that troubles me in ordinary apps on the Mac, at all (because app switching is command-tab) but I concede that this is regularly aggravating on the web.


Yes, the tab key has miserable UX.




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