to increase productivity, you may need to 'do without' do without mouse and hard-to-reach keys (F1-12, arrows, numpads) i found ide is about using mouse and u

to increase productivity, you may need to 'do without' do without mouse and hard-to-reach keys (F1-12, arrows, numpads) i found ide is about using mouse and using those keys (like F5? to run) etc ... but i didn't use much ide shrug in vim, you can take those keys plus backspace, alt and even esc (i map it to ^C because ^] hurts, not because of emacs) ... also xmodmap caps to ctrl emacs still requires at least a meta key so that adds complexity. vim cheats by using modes :D with fewer keys, the intensity = (strokes / #key) is high and that may lead to higher productivity oh and of course, touch typing really helps especially the often untrained part like numbers and symbols. i used 'typing tutor for mac' and trained streams of letters, numbers and symbols ... like 'aJ8@9)x|W,~2'