Re:Emacs is special regarding UIs
by brabel on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:30AM
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> you can get by with keyboard + mouse and slowly learn some new shortcuts here and there.
Agree, but I am extremely used to the trackpad and haven't used a mouse in years... because of its closeness to the keyboard (in pretty much any laptop) I can do things very quickly when I have no shortcut at hand... so much so that I only find it worthwhile to memorize a few shortcuts for the tools I use most (the terminal, IntelliJ IDEA, and a few for VS Code though I find their shortcuts terrible)... but it's unescapable that you'll need to use the mouse or trackpad sometimes, especially when not using your main tool (things like browsers, photo apps, even file managers unfortunately), so getting good at it I think is more useful than memorising a million shortcuts for a single tool.
Agree, but I am extremely used to the trackpad and haven't used a mouse in years... because of its closeness to the keyboard (in pretty much any laptop) I can do things very quickly when I have no shortcut at hand... so much so that I only find it worthwhile to memorize a few shortcuts for the tools I use most (the terminal, IntelliJ IDEA, and a few for VS Code though I find their shortcuts terrible)... but it's unescapable that you'll need to use the mouse or trackpad sometimes, especially when not using your main tool (things like browsers, photo apps, even file managers unfortunately), so getting good at it I think is more useful than memorising a million shortcuts for a single tool.