Re:Helix: a post-modern modal text editor
by mjhagen on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:13AM
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Surprise OS update popup with focus on "OK", you press enter at just the wrong moment and you're now rebooting. OK, that wouldn't happen as far as I know, but there have been plenty times where I was typing away, glancing over, and the focus had changed and now I'm typing into nothingness (or something worse like in my not too likely example). With the mouse at least I'm actually looking at the screen.
With keyboard commands, I don't have to verify the accuracy of my mouse movements, and I don't have to react to the timing, location, content, and focus changes of UI widgets. I just press the keys in the right order. It requires so much less vigilance, it's a big relief.