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

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

[boyd.roberts]

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cursor keys should be banned.  they are a curse 'cos they send
multibyte sequences.  try telling some user why their beloved
cursed (sic) keys work locally but not over, say, a tcp connection.

anyway i don't want to type.  i want to mouse.  pity that most mouse
driven interfaces suck.  plan 9, of course, being an exception.

i like the keypad for IP addresses, particulary if you have an
azerty keyboard (like i do); the numbers are in the right place
but you have to hit shift to get em:

  ² & é " ' ( - è _ ç à ) =
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ° +   shifted
      ~ # { [ | ` \ ^ @ ] }   alt-graphic

and yes this layout is a bugger to write code on; none of the special
chars are grouped sensibly (eg. the various forms of brackets).



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

[boyd.roberts]

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this is not the real problem.  the real problem is that the scroll bar is
on the right and that all the menus are never where the mouse is.

if you write left to right the scrollbar should be on the left and vice versa.



                                                                  
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>>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.

absolutely.




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