Comment by gumby
5 years ago
> I mean, it's not like you can ever convince me that >10 keystrokes are as fast as 1 click,
I know your reply was to debasarab2 and my upstream comment did say YMMV, but in fact it is a lot faster for me (and likely debasarab2) to type 10 characters than click an icon. My working mode is simply different. We’re not saying you’re wrong, what we’re saying is it’s not universal.
If I Haase to click a button I have to move a hand off the keyboard, shift my gaze, find the mouse pointer, move it, then BT my hand back to the keyboard.
Whereas on a command line I always know where my keystrokes go, I never have to move my hands or look away from the screen, and I have >40 years of typing at computers wired into my basal ganglia. (This is despite the fact that the first computer I used, a CADR lisp machine, had a mouse and bitmap display). GUI interfaces are simply much slower for me, except in very unusual applications. I am not claiming it to be universal but it is clear the affordances of the command line are significantly lower-friction for people accustomed to them.
My hands are on the keyboard most of the time too, I'm not a particularly slow typer, and there's no way I could write a proper git checkout-index command at the speed of just a click or two.
But again: I will believe you if you measure it and report back. So far the only person who's measured anything has been me, and I have to wonder why others are so averse to it.