Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment

Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ... by paulryanrogers on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:18AM (#26098494)

While all true IME the ever growing stack of libraries, frameworks, languages, and infra tools one must learn leaves little breathing room for modest gains in text wrangling.

Most of my time isn't spent slicing and dicing snippets or juggling windows. Rather it's thinking, planning, a bit of experimentation, reading, repeat.

And powerful, built-in auto complete with visual IDEs like IntelliJ or PyCharm make them hard to give up.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ... by thanato0s on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:09AM (#26099341)

I thought the same before trying to use my actual dev environment, but, at least for me, it felt more enjoyable to stop using the mouse when I was coding. I think the best is just to try both approach and see by yourself.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ... by blunte on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:15AM (#26099987)

Even still, cmd-opt-b when your caret is on a name jumps you to the code where that thing is implemented. A few shortcuts like that make navigating so effortless that you are free to focus on the code and libraries.

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ... by paulryanrogers on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:01AM (#26101002)

Sorry if I was unclear. That's one of my favorite shortcuts actually. And I write my own Bash aliases and scripts to reduce terminal fatigue.

I just don't devote much time to mastering text editors. In fact I've had to change editors so often that mastery may have been unrealistic anyway.

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