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> I think there's some research by Apple (?) that shows this. There was, but it was bogus. The subjects were given a paragraph in which every ‘e’ had been repl
by kps 11y ago
> I think there's some research by Apple (?) that shows this.
There was, but it was bogus. The subjects were given a paragraph in which every ‘e’ had been replaced by a bar ‘|’ and they had to change them back. But they were only allowed to use the basic Macintosh text box, so they had to use the cursor keys to move to each ‘|’, delete it, and type an ‘e’. Obviously (obvious to vi users, anyway) this is not an efficient way to use the keyboard. :s/|/e/g
- cname 11y agoYeah, I was wondering if maybe that research didn't apply to power users. Regardless, for me personally, I mostly use the keyboard in an IDE (vim style) but find the mouse is much better for certain things. Even when I use straight vim, I often find that it's easier to visually target something with the mouse versus using search or motion commands.