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by PeeMcGee 495 days ago
It's really humbling and everyone should do it every now and then. An old coworker coined "mouseless monday mornings" where we'd unplug our mice(?) until lunch to start each week. We all learned a lot about how to be more efficient in our IDE's, learned tons of useful OS and browser shortcuts, observed tons of accessibility flaws in our product, and all of that during the dullest hours of the week.
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One is so stupid, to learn some "useful shorcuts" which are existing only until some megacorp is going to change anything in their software (OS, IDE, browser has almost none of them). I am a huge proponent of learning touchtyping, then vim and... nothing more.
Do you also flog yourself when you make mistakes? Or is that just something you think others should do?
I find I can do plenty in the browser via Vimium extension, tabbing and general keyboard shortcuts (PgUp/Dn, Ctrl+t/n/f/e/r/q)
Set up your own shortcuts for the software that matters to you. Terminal emulator and text editor/IDE will pay for the effort spent very quickly.
That "pay" will always disappears, but the keyboard placement and vim commands never disappear.
I think we're having a disconnect here. You can keep your custom settings and take them with you wherever you go. This actually also applies to your operating system (especially Linux) but I personally do not mess with them much unless it's a tiling window manager - which is another class of software that benefits greatly from setting up custom shortcuts.
Why would it disappear? I have used the same key bindings (from Sublime) on Jetbrains IDEs for years.
wait, so, do you really move your mouse cursor all the way up to the little tiny x every time you'd like to close a tab in your browser?
Closing tab is at least 10x more rare event for me than choosing another tab, and for me doing this with cursor is handy since all the webpages suppose I have a mouse and none of them suppose I know how to surf without mouse. Choosing another tab for me is never like Ctrl[-Shift]-Tab because I have too much of them.