One reason I’ve developed such a dependency on mousing and not short cuts. Now it’s just windows and macos but before it was windows, macos, unity, and gnome 3. Using the mouse is sane. 2-4 sets of shortcuts is not.
for a while i was exclusively using gnome3...without getting into a gnome2 vs gnome3 debate (gnome has been my default since 1.4, I found the gnome2 introduction just as jarring as the gnome3 introduction) --
Using soley gnome3, I feel like I was able to reach peak productivity. I was able to easily switch between tasks by allowing them all to be fullscreen, and just scrolling through the desktops with barely moving my thumbs. Great emacs keybinding support. Especially in emacs.
I've been fighting tooth and nail with macos, because they use both option & command with their keybindings. There's no winning no matter how I rebind.
Windows I mostly don't try. jetbrains has a good enough emacs keybinding that doesn't seem to get clobbered by the OS.
once you use a program enough,imo, you'll learn useful shortcuts even if they're incoherent. I hate editing text or programming with a mouse after using vim for a while. Same with many other programs. + you can always rebind but it's a lot of effort and stuck on your computer
To use a shortcut, I need to know :
1) What keyboard layout am I using?
2) Am I using a Kinesis or standard keyboard?
3) What OS am I using?
4) What app I'm using?
Don't do it, kids. Now I'm so invested in Dvorak that I can't go back. It's an irreversible change.
It's suprising, but muscle memory somehow makes all of this work (most of the time). Sometimes I screw up horribly.