apfelmus wrote:
I can't know whether that's the case, but the fact that virtually all commands are invoked with the keyboard clashes with HID research reported at
http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
It adresses the question whether selecting commands in menus with the mouse or accessing them via keyboard shortcuts is faster. The answer is:
"* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding."
The research there is reported as hearsay, it is not referenced research, so I can't check their methods. Despite the implicit claim that my brain must be lying to me and causing amnesia I'm unaware of, I would dispute the claims there. I suspect there might well be a large body of users (even 'most') for which it's true. However 'most' people are not fast typists. I'm sure that I can quite reliably hit the command editor keybindings I use many, many times faster than if I had to select them from a menu. Jules