I never thought of getting rid of the mouse. I'm NOT anti-GUI. The point of the post was that I was making GUI's for everything. I was merely pointing out that hot-keys are usually dealt with as an afterthought when IMHO they should be tied to the widgets more tightly.

Why do you need to define a sub for the button & another sub for they keystroke. Why not bind the keystroke to the widget...?

And the answer was given by Masem-sama who pointed out that there might be an Internationalization issue.

And I grant that yes, Visually Oriented software is GUI driven by nature. However, most of the commercial graphic artists that I know use Photoshop & use the hot keys like mad to make their work go faster. As a programmer I want to accomidate these people. I hate Windoze but I use it at work so I learned all of the hot keys. I have a few Macs at home (amongst other things) & sometimes I get frustrated when I have to use the mouse to do something, when otherwise I'm on a roll.

I think the point I was making is that as programmers it's our responsibility to provide "More Than One Way To Do It". As in: practicing what we preach in these hallowed halls.