[pdpi]

> I also hate the difference in cmd, alt and ctrl keys from other keyboards.

It's a matter of habit, and super easy to configure from the keyboard preferences in macOs. The trade-off is that ctrl is almost exclusively used for unix-y thing, and all the usual GUI-y things use Cmd. Using a shell is just painful for me in anything other than macOS for that reason alone.

Incidentally, because of the pervasive support for readline shortcuts in all text inputs, del is just ctrl-D.

[Lio]

> Using a shell is just painful for me in anything other than macOS for that reason alone.

On Linux at least you can use Ctrl-Shift-x, Ctrl-Shift-c and Ctrl-Shift-v for cut, copy and paste in the terminal. So again it's just a case of getting use to the shortcut differences.

On macOS Del can also be found on fn-Backspace and I often remap the right Alt key to Ctrl.

It's pretty easy to adapt to either with a little time.

[pdpi]

The point is that it’s just annoying that the terminal is a special application that has its own shortcuts for everything. I could use shift-ins or ctrl-ins too — but I don’t want to. I want the terminal to behave like any other application.

[mixmastamyk]

Some terminals have the feature called "smart copy." You may like it.