22 May
2007
22 May
'07
6:21 a.m.
Alistair_Bayley:
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.
Note that the claimed time-consuming part is not to actually press the keybinding, but to chose and remember which one to press.
Yes... except that for a lot of people, programmers especially, a lot of key bindings have become part of your motor memory, and so you can probably hit the common ones quite quickly without having to stop to think about which combination of keys to press. Cut/copy/paste are good examples of this, I think.
Exactly, this is why my shell, window manager, mp3 player, web browser, and editor all use hjkl to navigate :-) -- Don