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by Sophira 643 days ago
While on UK keyboards it's the opposite "problem" - the left Ctrl key and the \ key are right next to each other (making it potentially a one-finger operation), which is the opposite of how a US keyboard is laid out (where Ctrl-\ was presumably intended to need to be a two-handed, two-finger operation).
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> which is the opposite of how a US keyboard is laid out (where Ctrl-\ was presumably intended to need to be a two-handed, two-finger operation).

We have a right Ctrl, so one-hand two-finger.

When using a keyboard "properly" how are you gonna manage that?
two handed operations shouldn't exist.
I completely agree - they're very inaccessible. That's why I quoted the word "problem"; it's not actually a problem at all.
stty quit ^] ?