From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:26:52 +0200 Message-ID: <56a297000907011326o60a67a22u846584844db338e5@mail.gmail.com> From: Noah Evans 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: 125013c0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It's not how you say something, it's what you say. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:24 PM, wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:46, Charles Forsyth wrote: >> >>>> I think Tog's conclusions (the single set of studies put forth >>>> whenever this thing >>>> comes up) are poorly made ... >>> >>> it turns out that there is rather older work that supports >>> much the same conclusion, which i probably saw mentioned in HCI >>> Remixed, >>> since that's one i've read recently. >>> >> >> I've seen a couple of independent time trials from the mid 80s that >> supported the same conclusion. > > I won't dispute the conclusions on the time criteria. > I'm just not sure time is the right thing to measure. > I spend relatively little of my time actually typing > or moving the cursor, etc. =A0The majority of my time > is spent thinking, so I'm much more interested in > what distracts me less and what causes the least > irritation. =A0And I do find moving my hand back and > forth between the keyboard and mouse to be a > bit irritating. =A0I will say, however, that I find acme > to be the least irritating of the pointer-based > applications I've used. > > BLS > > >