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Eh, Vim and Kakoune user here for the last ~15 years, I love scrolling with my mouse and keyboard. Keyboard for when I'm navigating. Mouse wheel for when I'm ju
by asdkhadsj 6y ago
Eh, Vim and Kakoune user here for the last ~15 years, I love scrolling with my mouse and keyboard. Keyboard for when I'm navigating. Mouse wheel for when I'm just skimming code, idly looking for something.
The fact is scrolling with a mouse moves much faster while still seeing what I'm doing. You can't scroll line by line quickly with a keyboard. There's no variable speed (that I've ever seen, at least). However with a mouse I can alternate between fast and slow. Really nice for scanning large piles of text where you don't know exactly what you're looking for.
Sure I could jump a screen length at a time if I wanted, but then my eyes have to jump bottom to top to bottom to top every time I jump. I find it difficult to track where I am. Page jumping tends to ruin context, even with a handful of lines as context.
With that said though, I have seen some really nice Terminal renderers that will smear the cursor when you jump. It looks like it would help a lot to keep the visual context.