Yes, I know that Gmail has some keyboard shortcuts. I'm also aware that you can even customize them to some extent, but the flexibility has nothing to do with mutt's.
To give a concrete example, I am moderating some institution's mailing lists through a pretty exotic system, and I rely heavily on my mutt configuration to accept/reject mail and prepare rejection mail. In one keystroke, for instance, I prepare a reply to a certain MIME part of an incoming email notification and pipe it through a script to add boilerplate text and edit the message headers automatically. I wonder why so many hackers prefer Gmail's convenience to this sort of flexibility.
As for the mouse, like the keyboard, it is a tool which is appropriate for certain tasks and less appropriate for others. I think the keyboard is more appropriate to deal with email.
To give a concrete example, I am moderating some institution's mailing lists through a pretty exotic system, and I rely heavily on my mutt configuration to accept/reject mail and prepare rejection mail. In one keystroke, for instance, I prepare a reply to a certain MIME part of an incoming email notification and pipe it through a script to add boilerplate text and edit the message headers automatically. I wonder why so many hackers prefer Gmail's convenience to this sort of flexibility.
As for the mouse, like the keyboard, it is a tool which is appropriate for certain tasks and less appropriate for others. I think the keyboard is more appropriate to deal with email.