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> I am a heavy mouse (and trackpad) user and have been for decades. Editing and refactoring code for me is all about the mouse. It's a very interesting and sur
by mbel 9y ago
> I am a heavy mouse (and trackpad) user and have been for decades. Editing and refactoring code for me is all about the mouse.
It's a very interesting and surprising statement to me. For me the mouse is absolutely nowhere near convince of selecting text with keyboard. When your editor allows you to jump between paragraphs, words, ending and beginning of line (so pretty much every editor) it seems to be relatively easy to rapidly jump to place that one wants to select with couple of key strokes.
- eludwig 9y agoI would definitely agree that my mousing is not as efficient as an expert-level keyboard only approach. But it's what I do and what is comfortable to me. Random text selection in big bodies of text is always easier (for me) with a mouse first, trackpad next, keyboard last. Keyboarding, mousing, editing is a very personal thing to folks who have to work at their computer all day. Lot's of different ways to work, lots of approaches to the work. Each person has to find their comfort zone.