From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:19:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.0.0-rc3-l29+; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201106171319.18235.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0ef068a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Friday 17 of June 2011 12:36:21 Rogelio Serrano wrote: > i hate typing a few words than grabbing for the mouse then click then > back to typing a few more words etc etc... the layout of your desk matters. Most important, the angles of your arm whe= n=20 using mouse. Second mouse shape, third the distance to travel. I have a very narrow keyboard [1] (with full-sized, normally spaced keys, j= ust=20 very few of them), so it's quicker to move from mouse to keyboard and back.= I=20 think I'd love to use a chording keyboard, either left-hand only, or left-a= nd- right-hand if integrated with mouse. [1] very ergonomic thingie; got one for home and one for office http://www.geniuseshop.com/p-10509-Slim-Computer-Keyboard-PC-USB-Genius- LuxeMate-i200 =2D-=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] =46or example, if the first thing in the file is: an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional= =20 ROT13 encoding. (( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))