In addition to using text editors like vim or emacs and using a tiling window manager, what other programs do you use to reduce usage of the mouse? I recently discovered warpd which is similar to vimium’s hint mode but works globally.
to reduce usage of the mouse?
a keyboard?
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classy 🙂
I use this haha.
Also since I’m forced to use windows on my work computer, one of the few uselful commands I use in cmd prompt is
shutdown /s /t 0
A terminal file manager like ranger is pretty useful
I’m partial to midnight commander but admit I haven’t used it in a couple of years.
mutt is on my to-learn list.
You’re in for a treat, it’s a PITA to configure if you’re learning it (especially on the UI part, I found). Good luck on the journey :)
Don’t reduce it too much. Occasionally reaching for the mouse may save you from RSI.
If that is the only thing saving you from RSI you’re going to get it anyway.
I’ve had the pleasure, and your body posture and mental state of mind are much more important. Getting up every now and then is also important, changing seat position helps, and doing some sport also helps.
Both of my arms did hurt so much I could not cut my own meat. Mouse or no mouse:(.
Am much better now though.
I’m half-kidding about this though. I get that the stuff you mentioned are a lot more important. These are the reasons I started exercising and using break timers.
But the thing with learning keyboard driven workflow is that you tend to develop a habit of spam pressing keys if you can’t immediately think of a way to something with less keyword. Especially in vim. Because if I’m not always pressing something, I don’t feel like an expert enough, damn it! So I resorted to spamming hjkl, lol.
When my RSI problems start to develop. I had to really focus and change that habit to slow down and think of a way to press less keys. But still I stopped using vim key equivalents on browsers though, mouse scrolling relaxes my fingers a bit more than key pressing.
Cannot find a software with more appropriate name than this! Mouseless, it works flawlessly on both xorg and wayland.
Even if you dont need to replace your mouse (like me), it works great as a key mapper, much more fluid than AutoHotKey on Windows.
I use vimium browser extension as I noticed a large chunk of my mouse usage was on the browser.
qutebrowser, vifm, and keyboard plugins for all apps that have them
lynx (when possible), fff, cmus, mutt, latex, core-utils, mupdf (vi like keybindings), sxiv, mpv (no-gui)
i only use gui programs if no cli option exists: js-browser, gimp
Go full emacs and use eww to browse the web within emacs. Bonus points that it lives in an emacs buffer so you can switch/split between buffers easily
Ratpoison. :^)
To add to what others have recommended:
- mpv works very well from the cli and can do both video and music
- zathura is great for pdfs
- aria2 for torrents
- epy for reading ebooks
I use tridactyl in firefox. Except for emacs and tiling wms I’m not too deep in applications for reducing mouse usage, I tend to use keyboards with ‘better mouse placement’ for example the tex shura which copies the thinkpad trackpoint, or a corne keyboard with a pimoroni trackball. Or a charybdis nano. Even using a smaller keyboard layout counts imo, my favourite non-ergo keyboard layout is 60% which reduces necessary arm-travel-distance a lot :)
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some more tips:
· use bash key bindings and bind them to smt. like:
vim $(find ~/my-project | fzf)
· dmenu with a wrapper that sources an alias-file
