Editor Ergonomics [was: Important features for editors]
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Jul 11 09:45:33 EDT 2013
In article <2fdf282e-fd28-4ba3-8c83-aaaace1201ec at googlegroups.com>,
jussij at zeusedit.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:17:12 PM UTC+10, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>
> > * It is especially handy for selecting and deleting text.
>
> When coding I never use a mouse to select text regions or to delete text.
>
> These operations I do using just the keyboard.
For good typists, there is high overhead to getting your hands oriented
on the keyboard (that's why the F and J keys have little bumps). So,
any time you move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse, you pay a
price.
The worst thing is to constantly be alternating between mouse actions
and keyboard actions. You spend all your time getting your fingers
hands re-oriented. That's slow. This is why I never understood the
attraction of something like xemacs, where you use the mouse to make
text selections and run commands out of menus. It means you have to
keep switching hand modes. I use emacs in non-window mode, which means
my hands never leave the keyboard.
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