From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <639f03b145f3dfa9434cef8538abecf0@bellsouth.net> References: <1d15b0939b72b2a96dda32db53d449ab@coraid.com> <639f03b145f3dfa9434cef8538abecf0@bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:47:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130907011647v487ed881x66c88ad36ba8a36@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 12c187d0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM, wrote: >> perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the > > That's an interesting observation. =A0As it turns out I > do play, and it's certainly possible that it colors my > taste in UIs. The weirdest thing about piano for me (typist first) is pressing more than one key at once very often. That really bemused me. > >> contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs >> require to be quite irritating indeed. =A0fumbling for > > I don't disagree with you there. vi isn't so bad because it has a huge command language. I was always fond of it, but now I'm appreciating sam's more spartan, elegant command set more. > >> the esc key takes ones left hand out of position > > I'm less sensitive to esc, probably because I used teco > heavily in college. =A0Of course, the fact that esc is in > the wrong place on current keyboards doesn't help > any. Indeed. I remap caps to be escape, someplace where it should be. > >> i've enjoyed using ibm's trackpoint, but i've got >> two thumbs and acme needs three buttons. >> clearly there's room for improvement in input >> devices. > > Agreed on both points. I like Apple's new mice, but you can't chord with them. I got it before I got into plan 9. Now I want to chuck it.