[Haskell-cafe] Re: Editor

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

Alistair_Bayley:
> > > I'm sure that I can quite reliably hit the command editor 
> > keybindings I
> > > use many, many times faster than if I had to select them 
> > from a menu.
> > 
> > Note that the claimed time-consuming part is not to actually press the
> > keybinding, but to chose and remember which one to press.
> 
> Yes... except that for a lot of people, programmers especially, a lot of
> key bindings have become part of your motor memory, and so you can
> probably hit the common ones quite quickly without having to stop to
> think about which combination of keys to press. Cut/copy/paste are good
> examples of this, I think.

Exactly, this is why my shell, window manager, mp3 player, web browser,
and editor all use hjkl to navigate :-)

-- Don