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by 746F7475 3468 days ago
Have you seriously never ran into a situation where your IDE does almost what you want, but you still have to do some bit of it manually just because IDE can't handle this specific thing or format or whatever? If so you are either spending way more time thinking about your architecture and code before writing anything than most people or your IDE is fucking amazing.

While remembering long button combinations seems hard and tedious and "strain on cognitive capabilites" they really are just chained commands. In the idea world you don't think: "now I just have to hit v4w"+y to copy these things to clip board", but instead: "I'll copy next four words into clip board" and then just execute the commands. Same goes to longer commands, instead of hunting down some hidden feature in your IDE, you can just bang out chain of commands you wish to execute.