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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2009 15:38:12 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?
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> I spend relatively little of my time actually typing
> or moving the cursor, etc.  The majority of my time
> is spent thinking, so I'm much more interested in
> what distracts me less and what causes the least
> irritation.  And I do find moving my hand back and
> forth between the keyboard and mouse to be a
> bit irritating.  I will say, however, that I find acme
> to be the least irritating of the pointer-based
> applications I've used.

perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the
contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs
require to be quite irritating indeed.  fumbling for
the esc key takes ones left hand out of position
as much as grabbing the mouse does for the right
hand.

i've enjoyed using ibm's trackpoint, but i've got
two thumbs and acme needs three buttons.
clearly there's room for improvement in input
devices.

- erik