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From: Nemo <nemo.mbox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?
Date: Mon,  8 Jul 2013 12:15:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD7590F-FF7B-4F7E-91BD-80779CAC866C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgOgC-g3GRqNb_PRpOu4hKiKPC4sK57hyyUxpTS6jqpuHEQGQ@mail.gmail.com>


On Jul 8, 2013, at 12:09 PM, "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Although I spend a large part of my time on a Mac laptop, I'm a little
> puzzled at how or why one would use two hands with the trackpad
> doohickey.

I use one pad|mouse combined with Fn keys defined as mouse buttons (with
chording). This works only on Plan 9, not on plan9ports, but, I found it very very
convenient. I usually end up with one hand in the mouse plus the left hand on
Fns, when not in typing mode.

I guess, regarding usability, that using an external pad could be as convenient.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-08 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-02 23:36 Caleb Malchik
2013-07-03  0:58 ` Terry Wendt
2013-07-03  2:18   ` Rob Pike
2013-07-03  3:18     ` Anthony Sorace
2013-07-03  5:35     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-07-08 10:09     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-07-08 10:15       ` Nemo [this message]
2013-07-08 14:19       ` Kurt H Maier
2013-07-08 14:33         ` Matthew Veety
2013-07-08 19:12         ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-07-08 20:36       ` fgergo
2013-07-08 20:51         ` Rob Pike
2013-07-08  9:08   ` Steve McCoy
2013-07-03  4:51 ` Joseph Xu
2013-07-03  5:37   ` Steven Stallion
2013-07-08  9:57   ` Peter A. Cejchan

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