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Even in a non-Vim text editor, I dislike moving my hands off the keyboard. It's not a productivity thing for me; it's a preference thing. As a web dev (and I hate that most of the interactivity I have to program is mouse-based), I prefer to bring up the dev tools using the keyboard shortcut, and then another shortcut to focus the command line.


If you like the vim key bindings, and you use Chrome, you should check out Vimium. It will let you browse without ever touching the mouse.


I make it a point to stay relatively vanilla on my web browsers, because it helps keep my experience roughly the same as those of my users. If I ever stop developing professionally for the web, I probably will check Vimium out. :)




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