Also: > When working on something that involves Emacs and one of these mouse driven applications, having to move over to the keyboard for the Emacs bit is exac

Also: > When working on something that involves Emacs and one of these mouse driven applications, having to move over to the keyboard for the Emacs bit is exactly the friction we’d like to avoid. This is some cooked-up case. No. This isn't needed. No, I don't feel like I need to botcher the way I use Emacs because I also like to play video games or do some digital drawing every now and then. There's absolutely no need for that. All the cases OP describes already work well without needing a mouse, or are just worthless. For example, when you want to clone a Git repository, you need to either set the current directory appropriately, or specify the directory you want to clone it to. In either case you'd be dealing with Emacs navigation in your preferred way, which would be the bulk of work necessary to accomplish the action. Then pasting something like a link to a Git repository is just one keypress (eg. Shift+Ins) and you are done. Basically, someone got excited about Strokes library, even though it doesn't do anything useful. Maybe it was fun to write, or fun to theorize about how it could be useful in some counterfactual world... but, in reality, I'd never use that and wouldn't feel like I'm missing it, even after I've learned that such a thing exists and what it does.