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Me too. Especially since I can regularly hit 100 WPM when typing, but I'm a terrible shot with the mouse - not to mention the fact that you can get really nice and satisfying keyboards (I use an IBM Model M at home and a CODE Cherry MX Clear at college) but mice are all kind of the same, and you have to move your hand a lot to get there. On that last point, my mouse hand gets wrist pain consistently way more than my other hand (which I only use for the keyboard) does.

Add to all that the fact that the command line allows for a lot of really easy composition and automation, and it's significantly better for me. I can hardly function on a Windows computer!




Ditto.

For projects where I must work in Windows my secret weapon is WSL + tmux + fish + vim for everything without a strict Visual Studio dependency.


"Millennials Have Ruined GUIs"


hard to get around not using the mouse eventually when looking up docs or copy pasting from browser


Yes, that’s a pain point I haven’t quite cracked.

Copy-paste within tmux works just fine with (a) set -g mouse on in ~/.tmux.conf (b) mouse select to copy and (c) Ctrl + B ] to paste.

Copy-paste from tmux to Windows or vice versa is a pain.

I haven’t tried all the terminals yet but what I need is an iTerm2 [1] for Windows.

[1]: https://iterm2.com


Unfortunately. But that's what VI keybindings for the browser are for!


I personally don't mind using the mouse here and there in vim.




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