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Best Mouse For Programming?

Posted by timothy on from the keep-it-away-from-cigarettes-and-drugs dept.

LosManos writes "Which is the best programming mouse? Mandatory musts are wireless, and that it doesn't clog up like old mechanical mice. Present personal preferences are for: lots of buttons, since if I have moved my hand away from the keyboard I can at least do something more than move the pointer; sturdy feeling; not too light, so it doesn't move around by me accidentally looking at it." What would you recommend?

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  1. A keyboard by Rix · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're welcome.

  2. Re:Mouse? by psnyder · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's a very good summary explaining why learning vi/vim is well worth the steep learning curve, entitled: Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?.

    ... with vi, your keyboard becomes a huge specialized text-editing gamepad with almost a hundred buttons. Each of them has at least two functions, shifted and unshifted, so you have almost two hundred functions at a single keypress (not counting Shift).

  3. Re:Huh? WTF is a programming mouse? by MpVpRb · · Score: 4, Informative
    Uh...

    Scroll wheel

    Scroll bars

    Select for cut/copy and paste

    Menu options

    Setting and going to bookmarks

    Navigating the various browsers and dropdowns

    Hovering over a variable in the debugger to see its value

    Many more..

    Yes...they all probably have keyboard equivalents, I just consider them awkward workarounds.

    Remember, you can pound in a screw with a wrench if you really want to...

    A mouse is sometimes the right tool for the job