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by BoorishBears 3337 days ago
Being "stuck in a GUI mental model" means I use IDEs for most development I do instead of vim/emacs (which I guess would be the extreme of being stuck in that model?). At the end of the day using my mouse to open a file doesn't impede my ability to code in the slightest.

I've never understood the almost subtle elitism behind being able to use Vim without a mouse because "moving your hand to the mouse is slow". If a problem is so simple my writing/editing a solution for it is constrained by... the time it takes my hand to move to my mouse... I usually just fire up nano.
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lucky_cloud 3337 days ago
It's not about elitism, it's about using the tool you've chosen efficiently.

If I used the IDEs you use, and you suggested to me a way of using them more efficiently, I wouldn't accuse you of elitism. I'd thank you for showing me something new and improving the way I work.

Have you ever witnessed somebody using a mouse to move between form fields? My bet is you at least thought about telling them they can use the tab key. You probably wouldn't expect them to come back with some comment about the subtle elitism behind using the tab key.

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BoorishBears 3337 days ago
If I told them they didn't really know how to use a browser because... they didn't know to use tab to move between fields... I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if they came back with some comment about the subtle elitism
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lucky_cloud 3337 days ago
Ha, fair enough. But that really only shows that my example wasn't great.

If you eat soup with a fork, you don't know how to use silverware. If you drive nails with a ball-peen hammer, you don't know how to use hammers. That's not hammer or silverware elitism.

IMO, using a mouse in vim shows that you don't know vim. You can still get the job done, but why not commit to using the tool as intended?

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fmoralesc 3336 days ago
Have you used a PDF form where the order of the fields is wrong so Tab moves all over the place? I sure have. There is no silver bullet.
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Tarean 3337 days ago
Most IDE's have fantastic fuzzy search and go-to-identifier tools you might want to try. I find it much easier to stay concentrated on a change when not needing to hunt files with the mouse.
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