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An Editor that Skips to the End of a Def

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Thu Sep 20 15:13:54 EDT 2007 
"W. Watson" <wolf_tracks at invalid.com> writes:

> Thanks, but no thanks. The learning curve is way too steep.
[...]

Eclipse must be able to do this.

Eclipse is emacs for stupid people ;-)

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 suspect the reality is at neither extreme (nor "somewhere in the
middle").


John
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