I use the mouse all the time while developing software. And oddly enough, it doesn't diminish my productivity, since I generally spend more time thinking than typing, and use an IDE to get any boilerplate out of the way or look up API calls or refactor.

> Why do you want to use your mouse while coding?

This reminds me of the times I was tasked with the job of assisting junior programs with their code.

At times their mouse usage habits would drive me nuts!!!

I would say something like cut those three lines and move them outside of the loop.

I would watch them try to mark the three lines of code with the mouse.

That would take a second or two.

Then they would right click on the mouse to bring up the copy popup menu only to accidentally hit the left mouse button and remove the marked area forcing them to start again.

Five or six seconds later the task was still not done and I would say please move and let me jave a go.

A few key strokes later the cut and past is done.

I don't- but for discoverability purposes, I'm more likely to find success by clicking on a method name than by randomly pawing keyboard shortcuts. Once discovered, I'll happily take the shortcut.

Because you don't always know your code base very well. I almost always use vim but when a new large project comes along I've found no better way to read through it than with a mouse.

Because when browsing code it's faster to click on a method name than to navigate to it with the keyboard.