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Yes. When you type 8 characters per second, it makes no sense to have to unglue your hands from the home row. On the other hand I find that raw typing speed ha
by lmilcin 5y ago
Yes. When you type 8 characters per second, it makes no sense to have to unglue your hands from the home row.
On the other hand I find that raw typing speed has barely anything to do with development speed.
- calvinmorrison 5y agoNavigation is hands down the most important aspect of reading programs or large documents. I've failed to find a tool that is superior to vim modal editing implemented. I use it for everything from Firefox to PDFs to vims and wouldn't change that.
- gumby 5y ago> On the other hand I find that raw typing speed has barely anything to do with development speed. I agree it's all about the thinking. However moving my hand off the keyboard slows down my thinking: I might have to move my eyes to find the mouse and then re-orient my hand on the keyboard, all of which is a small cognitive distraction. I tried the Mac trackpad and while it's quite responsive, it's still moving off the keyboard. That's what makes Emacs so powerful: the primary cursor movement is search and the next is structured movement, not character based. All the semantic movements (jump to definition and the like) are tiny keyboard commands. I don't use the arrow keys except in other apps.