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I do love search for file navigation (incremental is even better, but not strictly necessary). Do you have a link to the study about mouse vs cell-based key mo
by qu4z-2 14y ago
I do love search for file navigation (incremental is even better, but not strictly necessary).
Do you have a link to the study about mouse vs cell-based key movement?
I have a couple of questions:
- While I fully believe that navigating by mouse is faster, on a desktop the overhead of switching between typing and mousing is quite high. On my laptop I often use the trackpoint over relevant keyboard shortcuts because it's already right under my fingers, but on my desktop I much prefer using the shortcuts due to the overhead of switching.
- For a movement that's three cells or fewer, I find it hard to imagine that mouse would be faster (unless perhaps it's set to follow the cursor?). I assume the study averages over a variety of distances across the entire screen. I hope that most vim users aren't using hjkl for adjustments of more than three or so cells. A combination of {}wb and especially ?/ will handle the bulk of jumps quickly. hjkl are then useful keys for adjusting just a couple of characters to refine your jump -- and now they're already right under your fingers.
- kragen 14y agoI don't have a link. I remember that one such set of experiments was done by a famous usability expert at Sun who's not Nielsen, but I can't remember who he was. There's a slowdown associated with considering too many different options, too, btw. It's just more invisible.