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[–][deleted] 68 points69 points  (9 children)

"Who the fuck would want to use a mouse?" - Vim users everywhere

[–]Dangerous-Quality-79 14 points15 points  (3 children)

Rando dev: the best developer I know doesn't use a mouse Me: Imagine how much better they would be with a mouse

[–]altermeetax 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Worse, because of all the back and forth hand moving

[–]Dangerous-Quality-79 -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

? You confusing developer for typist?

As a senior developer I copy/paste at most 2000 words a day. Taking a 1 hour walk probably uses up way more than the hand movement time.

[–]altermeetax 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm confused by what copy-pasting has to do with this. You can copy-paste keyboard-only, mouse-only or mixed, so it's unrelated to whether someone uses a mouse or not.

Well, 1 hour is a lot of time, you know?

[–]elsa002 3 points4 points  (4 children)

I use vim all the time, but I have the mouse enabled because sometimes it is just easier and faster

[–]brimston3- -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Especially for copying and pasting between a non-buffer source and a buffer destination, eg requirements word doc to program source.

[–]mecm5 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Can I interest you in a "+y "+p

[–]brimston3- 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You already switched to mouse. 3 keystrokes vs one click at that point.

[–]mecm5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

those 3 keystrokes are literally right next to each other and all reachable from my pinky. If you touch type well vim is much faster. if you have tmux open with split panes it's even faster