![]() ![]() To eliminate or at least minimise the bad habit, you can use a simple healing method – a 10 to 15 minutes 'mouseless' session per day with these simple rules: I'll write more detailed about them in my next post – 'Setting up a productive programming environment'. I also take advantage of my custom File Template and two Live Templates, which I created in the ReSharper Template Explorer. I use this action often, that's why I created a custom shortcut for it. ![]() I used only the standard IDE and ReSharper with the IntelliJ IDEA keyboard scheme, except moving an open document to a new vertical tab group. Some actions were slower with one scenario, some with another one, but overall they should have a more or less the same effect. The comparison is of course not a precise scientific experiment. To sum it up, mouseless programming took almost one minute less than programming with the mouse and the keyboard, which is around 15% improvement. Part I - Programming With Mouse and Keyboard In the videos below, you can see the result. To get rid of this bad habit, I recorded two videos, one performing some common coding tasks using a mouse, and the second with the keyboard only. And there's another side effect – if you need mouse often, it's tempting to have several toolbars and nice gadget frames visible, which in turn decreases the available space for our core business, coding. It might not be a big number in terms of seconds, but over the course of the day it can add up to a significant sum. ![]() Still, I'd rather made jokes about 3,721 IDE shortcuts and Spiderman skills to execute 9-fingers keyboard shortcut combinations, instead of learning one shortcut per week – and hence my right hand became a devoted Logitech docking station.īut the truth is, when we're coding, by switching between the keyboard and the mouse, we lose some time. Few years later, one nice person showed me ReSharper. Slowly, but inevitably, IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio replaced my command-line Turbo Pascal and Fortran compilers. I didn't remember many shortcuts, except ctrl+c, ctrl+v, and ctrl+s, which I did learn and instantly became a full-stack Word guru in the eyes of toolbar-only users. Looking back and trying to figure out why I got addicted, it probably happened when Microsoft released Word 6.0 with its twenty-some toolbars with thirty-some buttons in each toolbar. To be honest, I used to be quite a power mouse user. ![]()
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