[rickhanlonii]

This was my first thought too, but then I considered the case where I'm already using the mouse and want to open a terminal and ssh to an app server. With this it would be two clicks, where without out it requires a move to the keyboard, a hotkey, and two keystrokes. However, moving to the keyboard is necessary after the SSH anyway, so that step doesn't really count against the latter.

Is it for me? I'll try it, but I don't think so. But I think it serves a need for some people, and I can always get behind ideas that serve or improve--successful or not--workflow/dev needs.

Great work Trevor!

[sneak]

Command-space t e r enter

Command-n

zz enter

[coldtea]

Yes, I could memorize this and 2000 other arbitrary shortcuts. Or, you know, I could use the mouse.

The times per day I open a new SSH session (and I'm a heavy SSH user) are so miniscule that keyboard vs mouse wouldn't do anything than give me a false sense of superiority.

That said, I already know this Spotlight shortcut, and yet I fail to see how eleven (ELEVEN) keypresses as described above are any better than lazily moving my mouse and clicking on a dropdown menu.

No, I don't want to "have my hands down on the keyboard all the time", like they are glued there. Not even when I'm programming. I'm drinking my coffee at the same time, for one.

And my commits (including typed and discarded code) are no more than 1000 lines per day. I could write those in 5 minutes, if keyboard dexterity was all it took to program.

So fuck yeah, I'll move my hands. I move them anyways, to interact with graphical elements that do need a mouse, to drink my coffee, to grab a pen and pencil and do some rough sketch, to scratch my neck, to answer the phone, to fix my glasses and tons of other things. And to not have them go numb.

[rickhanlonii]

First, Cmd+space i enter, a enter saves 6 key strokes.

Second, why would you open a new terminal window, then immediately open a new terminal window?

Third, I accounted for this in my post.

Finally, what kind of response is this? Are you posting a how-to? Are you making a counter point? Are you just being snarky?

[sneak]

Terminal is always open. Hitting it from spotlight just foregrounds it.