An Editor that Skips to the End of a Def

[Manuel Graune]

Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww at chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:>
>
>> <http://www.asktog.com/SunWorldColumns/S02KeyboardVMouse3.html>
>
> An interesting story. They say they picked a test for the express
> purpose of proving that in some circumstances cursor keys can be faster
> than the mouse, but came up with an exercise in which, unusually, the
> keyboard part can be performed with one hand, so eliminating the bit
> where the other hand moves from the keyboard to the mouse and back.
>
> -M-
>

It's quite funny, that what the author proposes as "to make it even
harder" actually speeds up the test for the mouse-users quite a bit.
And "cursor keys"? Please, every self respecting editor has ways for
moving around quite a bit more efficiently. 

And on top of that a use case, which no one in his right mind would
do this way. Accomplishing this task with search-and-replace would
have taken about 10 seconds. With Mouse or Keyboard.

Regards,

Manuel


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