[asdkhadsj]

For me (Vim user for ~10 years, Kakoune user for ~3 years (iirc), and now Helix user for ~1yr), mouse just feels very natural to skimming. Scroll, scroll, jump, scroll, scroll, scroll, jump. etc

Something about jumping down pages via shortcuts just feels so clunky. I lose all visual sense of my position on the page.

I keep wanting an editor plugin to scroll the page down with a single keystroke. Ie give me the visual anchoring that a scroll wheel does, but with a single key press.

Either way generally i just tent to use my mouse when i'm lightly browsing. Skimming for some code, working through a thought, etc. Jumping down pages just snaps me outa my thought process a lot of the time, because i have no clue where i am, i gotta relearn my position; where my eyes are at. Likewise jumping half a page is a bit better, but still - that instant blink where the top half of the page is gone, the previous bottom is now the top, and the bottom is now entirely new.. it just feels too.. immediate.

[modernerd]

Neovim has Neoscroll to replace jump scrolls with smooth scrolling:

https://github.com/karb94/neoscroll.nvim

There is a Helix issue (and poll, see last comment) requesting the same feature you could vote on:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/1671