An Editor that Skips to the End of a Def

[John J. Lee]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
>> Seriously for a moment, I read something recently (maybe here?) about
>> an Apple study that claimed to show that people who perceived keyboard
>> bindings as being much faster than mouseing did not, on average, take
>> less time to complete the actions that were studied (they took more
>> time, in fact).  The plausible explanation for this was that people's
>> subjective perception of time is affected by the greater mental work
>> involved in typing (as opposed to mousing) for a given action.
>
> I think mousing takes more mental work than typing, and that's why it
> subjectively seems slower even if a stopwatch shows it to be faster.
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I'm not sure this is a matter for debate, as much as physical
measurement.


John