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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by gpderetta on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:33AM (#21833638)
> navigating, debugging and other things a TUI does not cut it. And I spend a lot more time reading and thinking about code than actually writing it.

as an emacs user, I find it extremely painful watching my colleagues clicking around in eclipse to navigate the code base[1]. It feels just so inefficient and slow.

[1] I assume eclipse actually has keyboard shortcuts, but they do not seem to be used by my eclipse-using colleagues.

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by gdxhyrd on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:03PM (#21840557)
Slow? It is definitely faster to use a mouse to click a word in a text than use the keyboard to get to it. (I have no idea about how Eclipse does it, though).

Otherwise we would be playing RTS games with the keyboard. (I am a competitive RTS player, so I can almost instantly hit any point in the screen, which helps; a good mouse also helps a lot).

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