mike susz
@mikesusz
today i’m updating my local dotfiles again (i have 2 or 3 character aliases for almost everything i do from the command line) and i recalled how way way back when i was an architecture student and draftsman, the thing i liked most about the DOS version of AutoCad vs. the Windows version was that i never had to click on menus or buttons -
i would hit a hotkey to select a tool or perform an action, then use the mouse to draw. hotkey/draw. hotkey/draw.
Aug 30, 2024, 11:30 AM
mike susz
@mikesusz
it got better when i got a drawing tablet with a puck-mouse and i assigned one of the buttons on the puck to ‘enter’
now i didn’t even have to move my keyboard hand over to hit ‘enter’ for things that needed confirmation.
my lesson in all this is, optimize all the things? just enough that the optimizing doesn’t detract from the task itself.
my dotfiles repo is here if you’re curious https://github.com/mikesusz/dotrepo and i throw extra aliases in a local file ‘.dotlocal’ and reload everything with ‘pro’