> Why some devs try to avoid the mouse? I use the equivalent of "easy motion" aka "ace-jump" or "avy" under Emacs to move to any character on screen about 4 to

> Why some devs try to avoid the mouse? I use the equivalent of "easy motion" aka "ace-jump" or "avy" under Emacs to move to any character on screen about 4 to 5 keypresses. Two to invoke that "jump to any character on screen" command, one to tell which character I want to jump to, then one or two depending on how many occurrences of that character there are on the screen. I'll put it simply: my cursor is where I want it before you have even grabbed your mouse. And that is the reason why I avoid the mouse. Same for "menus" and commands: shortcuts are faster than using the mouse. Once a list of potential candidates shows up, I use the same "select any candidate using the minimal possible amount of keypresses" command.