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why do you think its a good idea to keep touching the mouse? it's not about emulating a teletype machine. it's about not picking up your (probably right) hand and moving it to the mouse constantly. this is something the teletypewriters of the past never had to deal with. I guess you don't yet have RSI?

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For example pasting a piece of code in the middle of a typed line is more convenient with a “mouse” driven cursor.

I use a Macbook as my keyboard/trackpad combo, so my “mouse” is actually extremely close to the keyboard, and I don’t have to move my hand much.

It's about familiarity.

Learn those cursor movement keys combos and you'll find it ends up being way faster to get to the middle of your line to drop your ctrl-v that way once you're used to it.

Not that I mean to rag on you in a superior way like so many keyboard-only primadonnas like to. You do you, and I understand that for a lot of people the investment in learning this non-critical stuff just isn't worth the time.

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