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> I find it more time consuming to go through a bunch of menus and GUI windows to find something I'm trying to do vs being able to just run a command or Google
by brandonmenc 8y ago
> I find it more time consuming to go through a bunch of menus and GUI windows to find something I'm trying to do vs being able to just run a command or Google for a command and run that instead.
Have you ever even used a modern IDE?
I don't think I've actually clicked on a menu item in IntelliJ like, ever. Not once.
I just press "shift shift" and get the the "search everywhere" dialog which searches everything including menus and customization preferences.
- nickjj 8y ago> Have you ever even used a modern IDE? Yes, I used PyCharm and RubyMine for over a year. The comment I was replying to said he was clicking around menu items to see what's available. I don't really see a difference between using "search everywhere" vs using something like fzf with Vim (which lets you search through a ton of different things besides files). But normally in my day to day I'm just hitting key binds or typing short commands without having to search for anything except files to open (which I could do with a sidebar instead, but I prefer fuzzy finding files based on typing out the name most of the time).