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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:13AM (#21834186)
> For 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.

Pure TUI is not optimal, but it still beats available mouse-based interface. At the very least, moving around the code is much faster with incremental search than with scrolling and spotting.

I'm still waiting for a code reading program that supports drawing on top of the code and that would otherwise behave like an infinite desk with (searchable, linkable, annotateable) code printouts on it.

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by gdxhyrd on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:06PM (#21840581)
> At the very least, moving around the code is much faster with incremental search than with scrolling and spotting.

A GUI does not necessarily imply scrolling to find something.

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