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> The mouse just doesn't provide quick and accurate text navigation at the same time It does both. And much faster than keyboard navigation if you're moving to
by dmitriid 5y ago
> The mouse just doesn't provide quick and accurate text navigation at the same time
It does both. And much faster than keyboard navigation if you're moving to a text at some distance away from where your cursor currently is. Mouse is literally a pointing device. If you need to go to a point in text 10 lines above your current cursor, moving the cursor there with a mouse is definitely faster than figuring out which of the ten arcane commands will get you there.
- seanw444 5y agoMaybe it's faster for you. For me, I can move to any line with Meta+G+G and the line number. That's faster than reaching for the mouse, aiming to the line, clicking, and returning to the keyboard to type, for me personally. There are other shortcuts like Ctrl+Direction to skip chunks of text. Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right skips words and symbols, Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down, in some of my language configurations, skips to the next starting point of a code block in the same branch. Movement is very straightforward with the keyboard, and depending on the editor, does not take long to get used to. If the mouse works for you, great. It did for me too, up to a point.