Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)

Re:Seven habits of effective text editing (2000) by foldr on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:51PM (#15535868)

Sure, but you usually have to press a bunch of keys in just the right sequence to do the equivalent with the keyboard.

Some things are quicker to do with the mouse and some things are quicker to do using keyboard shortcuts. I don't understand why people take such absolutist positions on this.

My arm doesn't get tired from moving a few inches to grab the mouse.

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Re:Seven habits of effective text editing (2000) by pmoriarty on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:10PM (#15536040)

"you usually have to press a bunch of keys in just the right sequence to do the equivalent with the keyboard"

Compared to a veteran vim/emacs user, you'd to do a whole ton of mouse movements to get the same effect of a few keystrokes.

"Some things are quicker to do with the mouse and some things are quicker to do using keyboard shortcuts."

The only things I've found to be quicker to do with the mouse are doing things like drawing in Photoshop/GIMP/Inkscape, or interacting with GUI applications which don't have keyboard shortcuts for most of their functions. Text editing and coding, on the other hand, tends to be much faster, sometimes exponentially faster, than the mouse.

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Re:Seven habits of effective text editing (2000) by foldr on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:18AM (#15542190)

>Compared to a veteran vim/emacs user, you'd to do a whole ton of mouse movements to get the same effect of a few keystrokes.

Depends on what you're doing. Again with the absolutism!

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