From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4A4C7EFB.2000504@proweb.co.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:33:47 +0100 From: "mattmobile@proweb.co.uk" User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <4A4C7CB9.4020804@proweb.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A4C7CB9.4020804@proweb.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 138f0ec6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > if the amount of text in the window is relatively small, then > just selecting all the text by dragging from start to end > and chord cut/paste is usually fastest. > > when there's lots of text, it can be better to > select all the text by typing ":," in the tag and > right-clicking it; then middle click "Snarf" to > copy it to the snarf buffer. > I select it (by drag or :,) and press escape for cut (and then paste it back in again if it's to copy) Though in doing this I often find myself pressing Esc in shell windows and not getting what I wanted. Also often you'll see my hand move towards the mouse and return to the kb because I changed my mind or be hovering somewhere over the numeric keypad waiting for my brain to decide what to do with it. Also I have two mice connected to my computer, one with a scrollwheel and one without. I've also got a perfit mouse which has no scroll wheel on the middle button but two for use with the thumb, sadly the one I picked up cheap (i.e. $30 !) is a little too large for my girly hands. And one of these one handed keyboards : http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/maltron.jpg Though I'm not up to any kind of speed with it, and I want to keep my eyes open for a left handed one instead (or get better with a left handed mouse).