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 toast0 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:31AM (#26099462)

The editor I use says CTRL-K H for help in the title/status bar, and if you push ctrl-k then h, it has a handy dandy help screen. It's not as nice as F1 for help that used to be universal in Windows, but the F keys in terminals never got traction that I saw (quite possibly because of lack of standard availability in the 80s; everyone had a CTRL key, so just use that).

UI gestures are pretty undiscoverable without documentation too; but there's no manuals anymore. Even the books like XYZ: The Missing Manual are few and far between. At least editors from the 80s and 90s have documentation, even if nobody wants to read it.

/rant (not directed at you)

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ... by anthk on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:09AM (#26100643)

So you are the single user left with jstar :D

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Re:Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev ... by toast0 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:04PM (#26104070)

At my last job, there was a user group for joe. I joined it, and it became a users group. So there's at least two of us. I didn't stay in touch with that other user when I left that job though (although, I did make sure to send a farewell)

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