Re: [9fans] Re 2 button mouse + Inferno

[Jason Ozolins <jason.ozolins@anu.edu.au>]

Elliott Hughes wrote:
> 
> "Mark C. Otto" <Mark_Otto@fws.gov> wrote in message
> news:39CF4E0D.85D86A7A@FWS.Gov...
> 
> > I also wonder if much of the discontent with the mouse has to do with the
> > ubiquitous Microsoft keyboards that require one's right hand to move some
> 35cm
> > to get to the mouse.
> 
> i like chording too, for the reason forsyth mentioned. there's no discontent
> with the mouse from my quarter, but i haven't forgotten my keyboard either.
> i see no reason to deny myself the use of one channel because i can get by
> with another. to insist that one uses the mouse and the mouse only is every
> bit as silly as insisting that one uses the keyboard and the keyboard only.

Absolutely and completely agree.  Plus it is usable by people who have
RSI in their mouse hand (twiddly chording gestures aren't really ideal
in that respect).

> > I would think a keyboard without the cursor and numeric
> > pads would be as important and the 3-button mouse.
> 
> i have my 'Happy Hacker' right here before me, sans inverted-T, sans numeric
> keypad. it's a really nice keyboard too, which is more important. see the
> unfortunately named website http://www.pfuca.com/ for more details. (there's
> no USB model as yet.)

Umm, I can understand ditching the numeric keypad if one is not a bean
counter, but why lose the cursor keys?  They work pretty well in editors
under other GUI environments. I was pretty surprised to find that
Inferno's Acme didn't support them - doesn't P9's Acme support them
either?
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