Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?

Re:Is the keyboard faster than the mouse? by pmoriarty on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:09PM (#14545849)

For vim there are plugins like EasyMotion[1], and for emacs there's Ace Jump Mode[2], which let you precisely get to any character on the screen with a couple of keystrokes. These plugins really revolutionized my vim and emacs usage.

Then there's also the ability of vim and emacs to quickly and precisely select text objects like words, paragraphs, functions, etc (even when they may span more than one screen). There's just no way a mouse can be anywhere near as fast as doing that for larger objects, and using the mouse is much more error-prone.

[1] - https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

[2] - https://github.com/winterTTr/ace-jump-mode

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Re:Is the keyboard faster than the mouse? by kossmoboleat on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:36AM (#14551578)

For Intellij there's also AceJump, but I haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/johnlindquist/AceJump

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