Aha, right, cursor movement across large distances is indeed more comfortable with the mouse. This is usually awkward with the keyboard, and requires plugins like EasyMotion, or just holding keys or repeating key combos
Embrace search based navigation. And if you’re using Vim or Emacs, do whatever that can popup a new window with the result of your search and links to their location in the main buffer. And extend that to search in all files of the $PROJECT.
I do use search often as well, but it's not great. You may mistype and land somewhere unintended. Or have to iterate over the results if they're not a unique match, etc. Whereas if the location is visible on screen, it's much easier to go to it with a point and click.
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Embrace search based navigation. And if you’re using Vim or Emacs, do whatever that can popup a new window with the result of your search and links to their location in the main buffer. And extend that to search in all files of the $PROJECT.
I do use search often as well, but it's not great. You may mistype and land somewhere unintended. Or have to iterate over the results if they're not a unique match, etc. Whereas if the location is visible on screen, it's much easier to go to it with a point and click.