| >I don't think you understand how shortcuts work.. I've been using computers since the late eighties, worked on from Sun OS to OS X 10.8, and have used Vim for decades, so I think I do. But I don't find them that useful anyway. As they get more numerous (aside from standard stuff) they only serve to give your mind a slight pause (to trigger shortcut recall, because not all are in muscle memory) and they trick you into thinking you're doing something useful for 0.5s, which for a lot of operations mostly the same time it would have taken for you to do it with a mouse. Just that with a mouse your mind is not working that hard (whereas the effort to remember the shortcut makes your mind think less time has passed). You might think that doesn't apply to you. You'd most likely be wrong though (unless you stop-watched compared it). That's the kind of tricks the mind plays. I've not speaking out of my ass here. Here's from UI expert Bruce Tognazinni. "We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: -- Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
-- The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding." Citation: http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html Anyway, I'd rather turn up a fader in a DAW by touching it, than by pressing +/-. |
Not to mention with multitouch I can move 5 of them at the same time for example. Where are your shortcuts now?