bgoated01

Do you have any good resources for learning these practical tools you mention?

Are there specific articles/books from those authors that you would recommend?

Not being a VSCode user myself outside of this context I may not have the best experience to answer the first question, but I don't think it tends to conflict with much except perhaps vim keybindings.

As far as using it in tandem with a keyboard, the main issues you might run into are timing. If you happen to be moving the cursor or typing while a voice command is running it could cause issues. You would probably end up having to take a second to pause and wait for the command to finish before starting to use your keyboard. Other than that, you should be able to use the VSCode instance like normal at any point.

Definitely a consideration. There are ways around that; you can use multiple hat shapes instead of colors, and/or only use white and a couple of shades of grey. I know at least one person that uses it this way.

I wouldn't necessarily say it reduces cognitive load, but I can get things done more quickly.

- I can delete a whole line/function/paragraph with one command from anywhere in the viewport.

- I can bring a variable name from anywhere in the viewport to anywhere else with one command, and if the name is hard to type quickly or doesn't autocomplete well (perhaps because it is similar to other names in the file) that is a large boost in speed.

- I can add whitespace around function arguments, or empty lines above/below any given line without having to move my cursor there first.

- etc.

Cursorless is an editor created for editing with voice control. It is built on top of Talon Voice and VSCode. Every token in the file is marked with a "hat," and you can refer to different pieces of your code without having to place your cursor there by stating the color/shape of the hat and the letter that the hat is above.

I started using it to help with some RSI, and honestly when I go back to a keyboard to use emacs evil mode it feels awkward compared to cursorless (other than the fact that it allows me to get out of VSCode, but that's a personal preference...).

This tutorial video gives a short taste of what cursorless is like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6lM68jU2iI And here is a link to the documentation: https://www.cursorless.org/docs/