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What you say is true but there is a keyboard shortcut which makes it all much easier: Ctrl+D

Of course, these standard and transferable keyboard shortcuts only seem to exist where a feature predates the current trend of garbage UI. I find that new features in software often don't even get a keyboard shortcut, or that the default set of shortcuts covers the entire keyboard so there's nowhere to bind anything else.

Ok but how bout on Mac? I've been using a computer since before I could walk and I don't even have the slightest clue how to do that. Maybe I'm old and this stuff isn't designed for me, but as of writing this post I don't know how I'd know what that hotkey is without googling it. It's not even discoverable via a pop up on hover like most hotkeys are! Atrocious design. Almost maliciously bad.

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