Re: Key collisions - forced decisions
If the keyboard does everything then a good set of well chosen short cut commands is far far faster than a combination of keyboard and mouse. So long as ALL commands are at your fingertips then with a little practice you get exactly what you ask for whereas a mouse, even a pixel off, will wreak havoc with your menus or command choices, as will returning to the keyboard from the mouse.
But unless you have had the fortune to start before the mouse became ubiquitous its unlikely you will believe this and spend the time (and we're talking weeks not days) of sitting down with an editor and beating it into submission.
If you get a chance though, ditch the mouse and in around about a month using the same editor for pretty much everything you'll start to notice a noticeable increase in fluidity and production.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
