From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <046701c0e367$4fd8d180$e8b7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010519141427.A5005199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> <256799493.20010523094655@proweb.co.uk> Subject: Re: Re[6]: [9fans] home, end ^h^j^k^l MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:04:02 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a61b6dcc-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i'm suprised this subject hasn't degenerated into a total flamefest. i think have things like ^c and ^v for copy and paste operations are definitive proof that the UI is broken. if it was easy to do with the mouse why would you have such 'keyboard accelerators'? i use them, but that's because it's easier than the various turgid mouse driven GUIs and with a two button trackpad it's easier than ctrl/tab + right button. all these are indications of broken interfaces or limited technology (ie. 2 button mice). look around. the 3 button mouse is nearly dead. the closest seems to be those horrible 2 1/2 button + wheel things -- ugh. even with all that code that runs the trackpad i can't get it to give me a middle button. well i could [left+right], but then i run out of fingers with which to select.