Hey, maybe we could put these pedals somewhere more accessible. Like under your fingers.

Well, what makes thumb keys so great is that the thumbs are particularly independent of what your other fingers are doing. Foot switches fill the same purpose.

You can only have so many keys under your other fingers, and the more you add, the more movement will be required of your hand.

lol

Imagine that with emacs: it's easy! Simply double-clutch the "Ctrl" and "Super" pedals while pressing Alt+Shift+T on the keyboard to open a new block context and auto-indent to the correct tab stop. ;)

"Granny shifting when you should've been double clutching..."

I still don't understand why you would double clutch a Honda Civic. Especially if you were trying to like, go real fast.

Upshifting, it isn't usually necessary, though I'm not a street racer, so I can't comment on the validity of that particular quote [0].

Downshifting, particularly into first as you're coming to a stop sign, it'll save a fair amount of wear on the synchros. Or if you have a car with worn synchros, it'll help ensure a quicker, smoother downshift in general. A 5-3 downshift on an offramp usually benefits, for instance.

[0] Given the substantial liberties they took in general, your skepticism might be justified.

If you double clutch near redline on your RPMs, you can get marginally faster gear changes with less wear on your synchronizers.

Double clutching is changing into neutral, then into the target gear, right? How could that be faster?

Try it (shifting at high RPMs, specifically near redline) in a Honda Civic (or any other decent, but not higher end car) and you’ll see. Shift at normal RPM ranges and you’d be right to feel doubtful it would be faster.

With Emacs it's click one pedal to open parentheses; click another close.

One of these bad boys should do the trick. https://www.nordkeyboards.com/products/nord-pedal-keys-27

But maybe you'd be more efficient with a chording setup...

Organ pedals would work for that. I think typically those just use magnets and reed switches (when connected electronically rather than mechanically).

Not to be confused with reed organs, which usually just have one big pedal that operates the bellows. Though sometimes they also have levers you can push to the side with your knee.

You can do it with one pedal -- just tap out your preferred option in Morse.

I’m thinking of pedals that a pipe organ has.

Vim should support mouse, like Midnight Commander

:set mouse=a

And away you go. As you get more efficient at vim use you might find you want to turn that off again.

(and also without the colon in your vimrc file if you want it to stick)

In general yes, but there are still some cases where mouse is better than the equivalent keys. Mainly resizing splits (guess how many lines you want and then C-w <size>|, vs just dragging the divider).

:set ttymouse=sgr also makes it a lot smoother.