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can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? edit: can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the outp

can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? edit: can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq?

qup 3y ago
you do that in vim? I do that in terminal (I'm a heavy vim user) vscode subs for vim, not for the CLI
BreveDev 3y ago
> can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? What does this have to do with anything? If I felt the need to work this way, I absolutely could set up my Mac + any JetBrains IDE to do it, but to me it is an entirely unnecessary requirement. > can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq? Yes, and probably from within my IDE (if I cared to), which I probably won't do and don't need to because there exists other tools and plugins.
IshKebab 3y ago
> can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? No but I don't want to because mice are a great invention that make lots of tasks faster. Why artificially limit yourself by banning a mouse? Do you really browse the web without a mouse? > can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq? Yes? cat file | ... curl ... | pbcopy Anyway those are super rare tasks! Why would I pick an editor based on being able to do things I want to do a couple of times a month at the absolute most?
vunderba 3y ago
I'm confused by this. Do you... not own a mouse? In my line of work, the actual editing of code is at most 10% of my time, and the remaining 90% is spent deliberately thinking through the actual algorithms and backend work. Piping to CLI tools is easily done through Jetbrains macros.
- skydhash 3y ago
  Vim allows the editing to be thinking.
smabie 3y ago
I feel like using your mouse is actually pretty efficient in many cases though.
Shorel 3y ago
Why would you want to keep your hands off the mouse? Why do you think the mouse is slow? Have you seen StarCraft players? They use the mouse and keyboard and perform an average of 200 actions per minute. In fact, to select a certain piece of text, to get precisely to the end of what I want, the mouse is, most of the time, the fastest option. I think the right idea is to use both, master them, and combine their strengths.

can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? edit: can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq?

qup 3y ago

you do that in vim? I do that in terminal (I'm a heavy vim user) vscode subs for vim, not for the CLI

BreveDev 3y ago

> can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? What does this have to do with anything? If I felt the need to work this way, I absolutely could set up my Mac + any JetBrains IDE to do it, but to me it is an entirely unnecessary requirement. > can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq? Yes, and probably from within my IDE (if I cared to), which I probably won't do and don't need to because there exists other tools and plugins.

IshKebab 3y ago

> can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse? No but I don't want to because mice are a great invention that make lots of tasks faster. Why artificially limit yourself by banning a mouse? Do you really browse the web without a mouse? > can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq? Yes? cat file | ... curl ... | pbcopy Anyway those are super rare tasks! Why would I pick an editor based on being able to do things I want to do a couple of times a month at the absolute most?

vunderba 3y ago

I'm confused by this. Do you... not own a mouse? In my line of work, the actual editing of code is at most 10% of my time, and the remaining 90% is spent deliberately thinking through the actual algorithms and backend work. Piping to CLI tools is easily done through Jetbrains macros.

skydhash 3y ago
Vim allows the editing to be thinking.

smabie 3y ago

I feel like using your mouse is actually pretty efficient in many cases though.

Shorel 3y ago

Why would you want to keep your hands off the mouse? Why do you think the mouse is slow? Have you seen StarCraft players? They use the mouse and keyboard and perform an average of 200 actions per minute. In fact, to select a certain piece of text, to get precisely to the end of what I want, the mouse is, most of the time, the fastest option. I think the right idea is to use both, master them, and combine their strengths.