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Honest question: Why are you using arrow keys for coding?

• ilikehurdles 8y ago
  If you’re going to suggest vim bindings, fine, I get it; but the act of moving a cursor around to insert, remove, replace, or otherwise refactor parts of code is pretty essential to my workflow and I can’t imagine how someone wouldn’t need it. I use structural editing shortcuts quite a bit, but not 100% of the time.
  • wilsonnb3 8y ago
    I think you’d be surprised as to how many people just use the mouse for that.
    • Tempest1981 8y ago
      Sometimes resulting in RSI
  • samatman 8y ago
    I'd guess that people who aren't mac-native don't realize how well the various arrow and option/ctrl/command/shift combinations work for editing. Or, uh, did. Before, y'know, they stopped providing a T-shaped arrow panel.