On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:

> Arguing about mouse vs keyboard misses the point.
> I'm very happy with acme's use of the mouse, but
> acme's power comes from the rest of its design.
>
> Russ
>
>
Even in Emacs, I use the mouse because pointing the insertion point or
cursor or whatever to where I need to type next is *much* faster than many
repetitions of a keypress a lot of the time.

Sometimes I do only need to travel up or down one line at a time though, and
then the mouse seems like a waste of time to grab, so I just ctrl-n or
ctrl-p in Emacs to get there (yes I don't use arrows unless I have to, and
no this didn't feel natural for a long time).

I suspect there's no perfect editor interface available.  All of them beat
editing crap on my iPhone :-)

Dave