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Applications to reduce mouse usage (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In addition to using text editors like vim or emacs and using a tiling window manager, what other programs do you use to reduce usage of the mouse? I recently discovered warpd which is similar to vimium's hint mode but works globally.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't reduce it too much. Occasionally reaching for the mouse may save you from RSI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If that is the only thing saving you from RSI you're going to get it anyway.

I've had the pleasure, and your body posture and mental state of mind are much more important. Getting up every now and then is also important, changing seat position helps, and doing some sport also helps.

Both of my arms did hurt so much I could not cut my own meat. Mouse or no mouse:(.

Am much better now though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm half-kidding about this though. I get that the stuff you mentioned are a lot more important. These are the reasons I started exercising and using break timers.

But the thing with learning keyboard driven workflow is that you tend to develop a habit of spam pressing keys if you can't immediately think of a way to something with less keyword. Especially in vim. Because if I'm not always pressing something, I don't feel like an expert enough, damn it! So I resorted to spamming hjkl, lol.

When my RSI problems start to develop. I had to really focus and change that habit to slow down and think of a way to press less keys. But still I stopped using vim key equivalents on browsers though, mouse scrolling relaxes my fingers a bit more than key pressing.