Comments on: Be more productive - throw away your mouse http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:41:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sam Torres http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-33854 Sam Torres Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:04:30 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-33854 h8gg9amt5silu21z h8gg9amt5silu21z

]]> By: Mike http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-30336 Mike Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:58:44 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-30336 @Nitin Thatnks for your comment. Visual Editor is good too. I also used to use Eclipse quite a lot when I used Java. @Nitin
Thatnks for your comment. Visual Editor is good too. I also used to use Eclipse quite a lot when I used Java.

]]> By: Nitin Pathania http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-30265 Nitin Pathania Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:40:30 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-30265 Visual Editor was,is and will be the Most Powerfull Tool available to Open Source Community.However i lament to see its limited access by majority of people accross the world... #vi filename ( Infact can work without the Extension ).... .....Practical Extraction and relational Language (PERL) float with Vi editor... It's benifits are unaccountable....its varies from user to an another user... Visual Editor was,is and will be the Most Powerfull Tool available to Open Source Community.However i lament to see its limited access by majority of people accross the world…
#vi filename ( Infact can work without the Extension )….
…..Practical Extraction and relational Language (PERL) float with Vi editor…

It’s benifits are unaccountable….its varies from user to an another user…

]]> By: Mike http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2406 Mike Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:10:37 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2406 Hi Everyone, thank you for your responses @Tiago. Yes I agree that laptop keyboards can also give you aches and pains. I think though that some of this can be alleviated by raising the keyboard at the back, for example putting a book under it? Perhaps the best solution would be to get a wireless keyboard that you can connect to the laptop whenever you have a flat surface. @Neil and Animesh. Emacs or Vi. I prefer vi, but that is just personal choice, I would recommend that people spend a week using each one then perhaps make decision? But Vi is very daunting, especially the crazy stuff that goes on when you're in the wrong mode. @Dr Shock. Yes, quicksilver, I used this for a while. However I started to use it less and less as I was doing more things in terminal. But there are certainly a lot of useful things, my favorite was binding iTunes start, stop, back, forward to the first F keys. So I didn't have to reach for the mouse every time someone talking to me. Hi Everyone, thank you for your responses

@Tiago. Yes I agree that laptop keyboards can also give you aches and pains. I think though that some of this can be alleviated by raising the keyboard at the back, for example putting a book under it? Perhaps the best solution would be to get a wireless keyboard that you can connect to the laptop whenever you have a flat surface.

@Neil and Animesh. Emacs or Vi. I prefer vi, but that is just personal choice, I would recommend that people spend a week using each one then perhaps make decision? But Vi is very daunting, especially the crazy stuff that goes on when you’re in the wrong mode.

@Dr Shock. Yes, quicksilver, I used this for a while. However I started to use it less and less as I was doing more things in terminal. But there are certainly a lot of useful things, my favorite was binding iTunes start, stop, back, forward to the first F keys. So I didn’t have to reach for the mouse every time someone talking to me.

]]> By: Dr Shock http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2314 Dr Shock Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:39:52 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2314 Me again, with quicksilver you don't even need a terminal, it is a program running in the background waiting for your keystrokes. It's only for Macs, there are some alternatives for windows. See: http://www.lifeclever.com/scott-hanselman-10-quicksilver-alternatives-for-windows/ Me again, with quicksilver you don’t even need a terminal, it is a program running in the background waiting for your keystrokes. It’s only for Macs, there are some alternatives for windows.
See: http://www.lifeclever.com/scott-hanselman-10-quicksilver-alternatives-for-windows/

]]> By: Dr Shock http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2312 Dr Shock Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:22:59 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2312 Keyboard is much faster and better for your wrist. So this nice post could also be cateforised under health. On Mac I use Quicksilver. It is amazing what you can do with this program. One of my favorites is adding things to my ToDo list with a couple of keystrokes. According to their website: A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. It is at: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ Some useful information can be found at: http://www.lifehacker.com/search/quicksilver/ Regards Dr Shock Keyboard is much faster and better for your wrist. So this nice post could also be cateforised under health. On Mac I use Quicksilver. It is amazing what you can do with this program. One of my favorites is adding things to my ToDo list with a couple of keystrokes.
According to their website:
A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.
It is at: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
Some useful information can be found at:
http://www.lifehacker.com/search/quicksilver/

Regards Dr Shock

]]> By: Animesh Sharma http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2311 Animesh Sharma Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:43:24 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2311 Mike, I just love %s///g . Very useful in dos2unix junk removal of ^Ms. I hope Neil has not initiated the holy war [ http://www.linux.com/articles/19661 ]! Mike, I just love %s///g . Very useful in dos2unix junk removal of ^Ms.
I hope Neil has not initiated the holy war [ http://www.linux.com/articles/19661 ]!

]]> By: Neil http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2293 Neil Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:15:15 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2293 Nice post. I'm always amazed at the number of people who seem entirely unaware that keyboard shortcuts even exist. It seems that when some users click on menus, their attention is focused on the main topic (Copy) and they just fail to notice the "Ctrl-C" next to it. In fact, many people just don't seem to notice 90% of what's on their screen. There must be all sorts of psychology and usability studies of this topic. You haven't quite talked me into trying vi though; I'm in the emacs camp :) Nice post. I’m always amazed at the number of people who seem entirely unaware that keyboard shortcuts even exist. It seems that when some users click on menus, their attention is focused on the main topic (Copy) and they just fail to notice the “Ctrl-C” next to it. In fact, many people just don’t seem to notice 90% of what’s on their screen. There must be all sorts of psychology and usability studies of this topic.

You haven’t quite talked me into trying vi though; I’m in the emacs camp :)

]]> By: Tiago Antao http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2292 Tiago Antao Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:57:17 +0000 http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2007/08/be-more-productive-throw-away-your-mouse/#comment-2292 Really insightful, I would just like to add 2 points: Most laptop keyboards are bad for wrists and the keys are smallish... This is not an advantage on the part of the rodent, but something to account for if using laptops (for instance, it might be a good idea to have a keyboard and a monitor to plug in the laptop at the workplace/home/wherever you work with your laptop the most)... The second point is more cynical: Most people will look at vi/command lines/keyboard usage in general and see something hard to use with no real return. The idea of a steep learning curve with long term gains is not adjusted to the current (short term) way of looking at things. Of course, if people were to think a few minutes on the amount of time that they spend writing at the keyboard, they might notice that just 1% time saved editing would mean really a lot in the long run... Really insightful, I would just like to add 2 points:

Most laptop keyboards are bad for wrists and the keys are smallish… This is not an advantage on the part of the rodent, but something to account for if using laptops (for instance, it might be a good idea to have a keyboard and a monitor to plug in the laptop at the workplace/home/wherever you work with your laptop the most)…

The second point is more cynical: Most people will look at vi/command lines/keyboard usage in general and see something hard to use with no real return. The idea of a steep learning curve with long term gains is not adjusted to the current (short term) way of looking at things. Of course, if people were to think a few minutes on the amount of time that they spend writing at the keyboard, they might notice that just 1% time saved editing would mean really a lot in the long run…

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