3 ms·

This is how I feel as well. But I know a lot of folks use the terminal inside of e.g. VS Code for this. I wonder what they'd say in response? For me, a lot of

• mumblemumble 6y ago
  For my part, I use IntelliJ for Java, vscode for everything else, and iterm2 for more intensive terminal work, all running in fullscreen mode and/or tiled using Rectangle. On OS X. It gives something very close to the "hands never leave the keyboard" experience that I like about living in the terminal, while also letting me fall back to a mouse when that would be quicker or easier. It also gets me the nice things that I expect are only possible to do well in a graphical environment, such as minimaps and displaying graphical information like plots or dependency graphs. I do find that my text-mode editor skills are weakening over time, and that does have an impact on my productivity when I have to do a decent whack of work on a remote server. But that's not something that I personally have to do often enough to be a major concern.