💾 Archived View for midnight.pub › replies › 3284 captured on 2022-07-16 at 16:28:04. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

< old macselfhood had much smarm, me I me I low

Parent

~inquiry

> This I understand. It's one of the main problems I have
> with the more prevalent social media services, where you
> feel pressurized into asking the more popular questions
> instead of what you actually want to say, which will into
> more interesting discussions

It's lonely at the swap?

(of verbiage)

> I have a hidden jealousy for vi, in the sense that it still
> feels like you're interacting directly with the terminal,
> making pipelining operations feel more native than they do
> in emacs.... but, well, I've already sunk too many years into
> emacs to go back now!

Hear ya.

But oh.. my.. gosh how I once again enjoyed my hitting the backslash key in my vi session, formatting the above paragraphs due to this in my .vimrc:

map \ !}fmt -64<CR>}

and then keying this:

:14,18!q

to "'>' quote" lines 14 through 18 by way of my own trivial $HOME/bin/q script.

I can't tell you how much I love shit like that.

Never mind the added felicity of slapping the 'vimium' extension on the Chrome browser to get lotsa vi keystrokes in my browser sessions!

Holy illimitable orgasmic keystroke joy, Bat<your favorite gender>!

Write a reply

Replies

~tetris wrote (thread):

Ah yeah, I love vimium in the browser. At first it was overwhelming with the link jumping options, but I got used to it.

"Banish the Rodent!" is the motto, although the rodent has been said to be much faster compared to keybinding operations, though keybinders are said to believe that the keyboard is faster.

From a 1989 Apple study:

> We've done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:
> 
> * Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
> * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

source: https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

and this was later backed up by a 2010 paper on hierarchical menu items:

http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sjost/csc423/examples/anova/efficiency.pdf

(see Figure1)

Regardless, I try to use key-bindings for everything if I can. It just looks cooler ;-)