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For anyone that switched to a CLI editor from GUI, what helped the most with shaking the mouse dependency?


Patience. It's hard to see the line or word you want to jump to and have to look at your keyboard and be like "what do I do?" For me it was basically tell myself "it's ok to be slow" and I started memorizing the navigation patterns from the top down of the `hx --tutor`. The further down you get on having that tutor file in muscle memory the easier it gets to want to ditch the mouse.

I switched from PyCharm and Sublime Text, although I admit I still use them from time to time when trying to grasp an entire codebase. Helix is my primary editor now and I wish I had the helix navigation and editing everywhere now lol.


Using vim motion extensions for my primary editors (VS Code & Visual Studio) for ~11 months at my day job while using vanilla neovim (no plugins, syntax highlighting, lsp) for the first 6 months on personal projects.


Easy-Motion, or whatever the new version of that is.




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