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Heh, have you ever had someone ask you what keybinding did something, and you had to actually move your hand to recall it? (That may be more specifically a skil
by eichin 3y ago
Heh, have you ever had someone ask you what keybinding did something, and you had to actually move your hand to recall it? (That may be more specifically a skilled-at-emacs thing, then entirely generic typing...)
- kccqzy 3y agoI feel this for my passwords. I can type my password without thinking about individual characters but if I need to recall it I'll have to move my hands.
- ewoodrich 3y agoAt work I was given a generated password (not my login password for context) of random words with numbers replacing/inserted at random points which I quickly memorized and used several times a day. After touch typing it through muscle memory for 6 or so months one day I misentered it a few times in a row, and I realized I had no idea what I actually had been typing the whole time (I knew the dictionary words, but the combination of numbers and where they appeared was the issue). Spent a while trying to zone out and let the muscle memory take over again but didn't work and finally gave up and asked for it to be reset. Very strange experience....
- kqr 3y agoRelatedly, I type both sides of matching pairs (parens, quotes, braces, etc.) and then left-arrow back into them to fill them with content. This is convenient to keep them balanced and because they are awkward to produce so I might as well do both in one motion. When people see it they sometimes ask me what keyboard shortcut that was, but no, I just typed them and backed into them.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoyep, and it's always hilarious.