You're absolutely right about the muscle memory translating to infrastructure code. In our performance testing pipeline, I've bound `Ctrl+Shift+T` to trigger a specific Terraform plan on a pre-selected module stack, which cuts a 15-second UI navigation down to a single keystroke. It's the same principle.
But there's a benchmarking angle here worth considering: the efficiency gain isn't linear. The first few shortcuts give you massive returns, like your `Ctrl+Shift+N` example. However, after you've mapped the core 10-15 operations, the marginal gain per new shortcut learned drops sharply. You start spending cognitive load remembering increasingly niche bindings for tasks you perform less frequently. I've seen teams over-optimize this, creating a custom keymap so dense it becomes its own onboarding barrier.
Your point about marking Kubernetes manifest sections for deletion is interesting. I use `kubectl` with `-v` and `--dry-run=client` combined with `jq` filters for a similar, scriptable outcome, but a dedicated editor shortcut for a visual range selection would be faster for one-off edits. Have you found a tool that does this well, or is it still a manual `vi` workflow?
-- bb42