Keyboard vs Mouse Efficiency

It's all about avoiding context-switching from keyboard to mouse and back.

Every once in a while it's much faster to just reach for the mouse than to use keyboard shortcuts.

You can make keyboard more efficient than mouse for everything, even browsing code and googling. Tiling window manager + vim or emacs editor + vim or similar keybinds for browser.It takes some upfront work to get those keybinds into muscle memory, but once you're over that hump a mouse feels cumbersome and clumsy by comparison.

Mine is: Don't waste time finding the "best" program for a particular task. Rather, find one that exposes keybindings for every action in the program, and then commit those bindings to muscle memory. This applies to:- design tools (Photoshop, Figma)- media-editing programs (GarageBand, whatever is used for video-editing these days)- unexpected places (e.g. Trello)The mouse has only 3-6 degrees of freedom to interact with. Only two digits on one hand operate a mouse. A

Mice are not a 100% replacement for keyboards. If you're doing lots of typing, there is something to be said for keeping your hands on the keyboard. Vim and emacs facilitate this much better than GUI-based editors.

I hate the analog-like nature of the mouse - having to move where you want, then slow down until you get to the right spot, then click, then click again because the cursor is a character or two off; and going through menus is a pain. And it's worse when you are hungover or tired. I just want a discrete and quick way to move around, and after using vim for a long time, it's not even a question that it's way faster and easier than a mouse. A mouse is a huge drag once you are stron

You know that there is something more efficient than the mouse, like the HUD or keyboard shortcuts?

I would lose years if I used the mouse in the terminal..

I don't think the keyboard could be described as a limitation. It gives such precise control over editing that you can look at a file and then perform complex edits without looking at the screen.The mouse is probably an afterthought because using the mouse is significantly slower than the keyboard commands.When you have enough commands in muscle memory and use it as designed, it's almost like a telepathic communication with the computer.Everyone has their own preferences thoug

hard to get around not using the mouse eventually when looking up docs or copy pasting from browser