From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Grunditz To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] text editor Message-ID: <22f6342d4b.micken@privat.utfors.se> References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/2.50a (MsgServe/1.50) (RISC-OS/4.04) POPstar/2.02 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:38:48 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b0f6b5a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I am a rather new plan9 user and the first time I installed it I was very confused , I was like you , used to cmd line unix editors. In my second try I actualy tried to learn acme, and after hacking the imap upas/fs a couple of hours with it I began to like it , acme. Now I dont have any cisc pc , but I have a RiscPC :), except a 68040 ql compatible , so no plan9 for me :( /Michael Grunditz In message you wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 nigel@9fs.org wrote: > > > To recap the logic (it has been repeated many times in the archives), > > once you switch to mouse centric operation, you become faster, not > > slower. It may be counterintuitive, but I believe it has been shown > > by research, not that I can quote anything. You have to move your > > hands to get to the cursor keys > > ... unless you have sensible mappings for them - hjkl works fine, as > far as I'm concerned. Not to (re)start religious wars, but... mouse > pretty much requires visual feedback. I.e. you need to watch the > screen while you are using it. Which is bloody inconvenient in a lot > of situations. FWIW, I still prefer vi, but using sam as extended ed > works for me... >