From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:28:09 +0200 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20070130112809.GB28705@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <34D4933C-7C2E-4B31-A448-D630C8A699E1@orthanc.ca> <7d3530220611142057t45ce0f89nc8a20dea219b92ac@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a80eaf0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:13:08AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > If you want to do everything with the keyboard, > you know where to find Emacs. For plan9/Inferno? No. Must have missed that. I'm also somewhat convinced that holding down anything is annoying, stressing and possibly damaging. I especially hate waiting for chords and menus to work over a very high latency drawterm connection. Sending something and waiting for it to complete (keypress, click) is easier. I have used vi/ed over quite massive lags. It's only annoying if your mental model gets out of synch with the receiver :) > Also IBM makes external mouse/keyboards with the > 3-button thinkpad trackpoints on them. That might be nice. -- Comparing apples with oranges is perfectly reasonable when you've decided to replace your apples with oranges. -- Juliusz Chroboczek, on darcs-users