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How using a mouse and incurring a context switch is better than just mashing j/k a couple of times in worst case scenario?

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If you're moving in emacs using per-line/character commands, you're definitely not using emacs as efficiently as you could be.

So the distance in efficiency (and therefore efficacy) between mouse and keyboard is rather a gulf, once you've paid the cost of learning the extra emacs commands.

When you're not editing lisp.

v, then t/T or f/F if staying on the same line, j and k if it’s within a couple line, / or ? for anything else. With the repetition commands ./,/n/N if I do not land at the correct place.

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