Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
by cryptonector on Saturday May 20, 2023 @02:18AM
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Modal editing exists because the mouse didn't exist then, and it continues to exist because modal editing is very powerful because you get to be in a mode where you type commands for cursor movements, textual transformations, etc., which allows power users to be very productive.
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I don't think I've ever seen evidence that emacs users actually need to be very productive in their text editor even if it works.
Though it might not work - the original Mac user research found that keyboards make users think they're faster, but don't actually make them faster, because of time blindness.
Do you have a link for that claim?
Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
by cryptonector on Sunday May 21, 2023 @05:46PM
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That's conjecture.
$50 million in 1980s dollars of conjecture?
Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
by cryptonector on Monday May 22, 2023 @01:25PM
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Oy, I skimmed over that line. There's no link to any actual study results though, is there?
Re:Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
by cryptonector on Saturday May 20, 2023 @11:12AM
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I wouldn't know. I'm a vi user. I don't know how much more productive I am with VI than non-modal editors, and even if I did know that would just be anecdotal, but I feel more productive coding in (Neo)vi(m) than I do in any non-modal editor, and it's much more comfortable anyways.