| > This is because you can remember where the keys are. No I don't remember, it's automated, like riding a bike. (Edit: for example if I need to tell you where a certain key is, I cannot bring it up from memory, I have to virtually type it in my head with my fingers, and then I know. So this really shows it's really muscle memory) > How would autocomplete help you here? Worst case scenario, I type "object.subs", wrong "Std.subs", wrong "StringTools.subs". Faster than you can bring up any doc. > Either I know what I am doing and I do not need autocomplete, or I need to learn in which case autocomplete just gets in my way and I would rather go to the docs. What about when you partly know, like substring? Plus, how does it "get in the way?" You partly type it, and when you see it, you just press space or whatever completes it. Even in typing it's faster, because a good autofill even uses word distances for matching. > who just uses emacs There's the problem! ;) > Needing to juggle through the autocomplete menu is a waste of time as you need to know _something_ for it be useful. This is exactly it. Most of the time, you know something or at least can take a quick guess. If you fail there are still the docs. You and the other person are very explicit in "either you know it or you don't know it". For me, most of the time, I kind of know it. Probably the main difference is there. Anyway, good thing nobody is forcing us to use anything, so we can both be happy in our own workflow :). One question though: have you used Github Copilot and what do you feel about that? It would seem to me you would also feel it gets in your way. |