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Discussion on: When programming on a laptop: Mouse or Trackpad?

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Jan Wedel • Edited

I use the keyboard for almost every shortcut that I can remember. I’m always amazed when I watch colleagues using their mouse how slow it is compared to keyboard.

When there is absolutely no way could sensibly use the keyboard, I use a mouse. Only when I’m in a meeting room, at home on my couch or in a plane, I would use a trackpad.

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Thomas H Jones II

I use the keyboard for almost every shortcut that I can remember. I’m always amazed when I watch colleagues using their mouse how slow it is compared to keyboard.

Bingo! It used to annoy the piss out of me during the earlier parts of the window-manager wars where you'd end up with different key combos depending on which WM you were stuck with. Pissed me off when I had to move to a Mac for a few years (since, at the time, its key-combos were different from the WMs used by both the UNIX and Windows-based systems of the time). ...And don't even get me started on office productivity software updates whose primary change seemed to be in the shortcut-mappings.