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Comment by jazzyjackson

1 year ago

Uhhh that would involve a mouse, gross ; )

Do you use a keyboard to browse the internet?

On unfamiliar codebases a mouse with back and forward buttons can be quite a fast and convenient way to get the "lie of the land".

I often do this inside GitHub's browser-based editor.

  • > Do you use a keyboard to browse the internet?

    Yes, using the vimium extension. My only problem is text inputs like this one, my muscle memory expects vim keys to work and I type a lot of jibberish that I have to clean up. I know there are extensions for that too but I can live with it.

    • Tridactyl has a native extension that lets you run external programs, such as popping up a gvim window for text inputs.

"Uhhh that would involve a precision action with a tool specifically designed for precision actions" ;)

  • I can definitely hit my Return key with more precision than I can drag a cursor over a 40x400px target but go off :P

    (I use a Superior Technologies trackball because it's the only mouse I could find manufactured in the USA and it's really not very precise, it's kind of a self handicap to nudge me towards keyboard shortcuts, muscle memory gains just have a steeper curve on keyboard than mouse)