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Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by wyager »

tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: post #15
israrkhan wrote: post #10

My solution is not to connect a monitor to my dev-machine and use ssh/tmux to do most things. It also makes work-from-home easy, as I can loginto my devbox from anywhere. But then it depends on what type of work you are doing, and how you are testing it.

Do you use an IDE on the client (the machine you connect from) and only have sources on the dev machine, or do you work completely in the terminal?

Many people I know just use text editors, no IDEs at all. Modern text editors, whether text-only (vim, emacs) or graphical (Atom, sublime) have plugins to replicate whatever IDE functionality you want anyway.

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by teddyh »

wyager wrote: post #21
tqkxzugoaupvwqr wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use an IDE on the client (the machine you connect from) and only have sources on the dev machine, or do you work completely in the terminal?

Many people I know just use text editors, no IDEs at all. Modern text editors, whether text-only (vim, emacs) or graphical (Atom, sublime) have plugins to replicate whatever IDE functionality you want anyway.

What? Emacs is graphical!

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by maaaats »

Jerry2 wrote: post #16

After I discovered extensions/addons for vim-like control of browsers few years ago, I've completely changed how I browse the web. I rarely even use the mouse anymore. Only when I want to save an image or save a file (from a misconfigured server that doesn't auto-download) do I still use a mouse. For everything else, you simply don't need a mouse at all. My favorites: vimari - Safari port of vimium: https://guyht.git…

Do they help navigate the dev tools? The web pages I'm developing are all UU- and keyboard-friendly, which is great when I test them. But I'm having a hard time not reaching for the mouse because I need to use the devtools.

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by lqdc13 »

Jerry2 wrote: post #16

After I discovered extensions/addons for vim-like control of browsers few years ago, I've completely changed how I browse the web. I rarely even use the mouse anymore. Only when I want to save an image or save a file (from a misconfigured server that doesn't auto-download) do I still use a mouse. For everything else, you simply don't need a mouse at all. My favorites: vimari - Safari port of vimium: https://guyht.git…

I've used the vimium for chrome, vimfx for firefox and they both have similar problems:

1) Impossible to navigate some sites 2) Slows down the browser to a crawl over time

Generally, not a usable long-term solution

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by metaobject »

Jerry2 wrote: post #16

After I discovered extensions/addons for vim-like control of browsers few years ago, I've completely changed how I browse the web. I rarely even use the mouse anymore. Only when I want to save an image or save a file (from a misconfigured server that doesn't auto-download) do I still use a mouse. For everything else, you simply don't need a mouse at all. My favorites: vimari - Safari port of vimium: https://guyht.git…

I'd love to use emacs key bindings to browse the web. Anyone have good suggestions?

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by terminado »

teddyh wrote: post #22
wyager wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many people I know just use text editors, no IDEs at all. Modern text editors, whether text-only (vim, emacs) or graphical (Atom, sublime) have plugins to replicate whatever IDE functionality you want anyway.

What? Emacs is graphical! https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

Try typing the following into a terminal window, at the prompt:

  emacs

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by icebraining »

lqdc13 wrote: post #25
Jerry2 wrote: post #16

After I discovered extensions/addons for vim-like control of browsers few years ago, I've completely changed how I browse the web. I rarely even use the mouse anymore. Only when I want to save an image or save a file (from a misconfigured server that doesn't auto-download) do I still use a mouse. For everything else, you simply don't need a mouse at all. My favorites: vimari - Safari port of vimium: https://guyht.git…

I've used the vimium for chrome, vimfx for firefox and they both have similar problems: 1) Impossible to navigate some sites 2) Slows down the browser to a crawl over time Generally, not a usable long-term solution

I use Vimperator, never noticed any slowdown effect. Why would that even happen?

It's true that some sites are harder to navigate, though.

Re: Show HN: Nomouse

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Post by knight17 »

icebraining wrote: post #28
lqdc13 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used the vimium for chrome, vimfx for firefox and they both have similar problems: 1) Impossible to navigate some sites 2) Slows down the browser to a crawl over time Generally, not a usable long-term solution

I use Vimperator, never noticed any slowdown effect. Why would that even happen? It's true that some sites are harder to navigate, though.

Vimperator is the king among Vim-like keyboard shortcut enabler extensions in browsers, sadly it may not work in the future versions of Firefox because Firefox is transitioning from highly free but less safe/performing XUL based extensions to a safer but limited WebExtension model. It is very fast and smooth with lots of features.
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