Hi,
Years ago, I read an interesting blog post from Steve Yegge about the importance of touch typing. However, while I am a touch typist, I use very few keyboard shortcuts, and often simply am unaware of shortcuts other programmers use. It's only when doing brief pair programming and somebody tells me something that BLOWS my mind. For example, someone once said to me, "use control+shift+. to 'refactor this' using the default refactoring suggestion, which after you rename a variable, will rename the variable everywhere it's used." Other times, I feel I underutilize basic caret navigation tricks, although I definitely try to maximize these as much as possible. For example, multi-line editing, or control+arrow key to "flea" the caret to the next token in the document.
Yet, there is no Mavis Beacon for Visual Studio shortcuts. And, there are a bunch of different keyboard mapping configurations:
- Visual Studio default
- Resharper
- Code Rush
- VS Code
- ...and this is just the ones primarily C# developers are familiar with
I've always wanted "Big Data" on what keyboard shortcuts my coworkers use, or C# people on Stack Overflow use, and so on. Does this already exist? And, is there any tool to help rewire your brain to use the most awesome set of shortcuts possible? Defining awesome can be done quantitatively. For example, if Resharper kept track of how much time it saved you from having to individually fix every variable name every time you refactor, you could compute a VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Producitivity-boost) for those time savings.
I have been going on a nostalgia trip looking at old software/games I played back in the day. Recently, Mavis Beacon crossed my mind and I decided to look at old videos.
There have been a handful of titles released in the series, but for some reason I cannot find the exact one I used to run back on my Packard Bell in the mid-90s. It had a brownish, library aesthetic that seems different than the other ones I have come across when searching.
Does anyone have any clue what the exact version was? Is there a somewhere you can point me to that has a complete list? I cannot seem to find that as well...
