Re: Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

Berlioz recounts his first sighting of orchestral velum.

"oh what wonderful music can be written on this ..."

I had a similar reaction when I first sat in front of a blit,
and rob couldn't drag me away from it.  23 years later
I still embrace the simplicity.  A UI that isn't in your face.
I'd bannish the ctrl-key but sometimes you wanta reboot.

brucee

On 11/15/06, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/06, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/14/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> >
> > > who said we have to be like the rest of the world.  i thought the
> > > point of plan 9 was to be different.  the rest of the world uses sockets
> > > and nfs, too. ;-)
> >
> > ;-) taken :-)
> >
> > we have to be, not just different, but better. Some aspects of Plan 9
> > strike me as different for difference's sake. I don't see a point to
> > it.
>
> I didn't immediately either.  However I've been organizing my data in
> hierarchies thanks to the Unix filesystem for a long long time now,
> people are starting to realize that searching for data based on
> metadata and getting fuzzy results is sometimes better when you have
> 92 Terrabytes of data in your iMac.  Ok, that's an exaggeration, but
> you get my point I'd hope.
>
> I think a lot of the way editors were written in the 80s was due to
> the fact that people probably didn't really "get" the mouse the way I
> think it was intended to be uhm... gotten.
>
> If you look back at the englebart demos, I see a lot of things that
> make me think more of Acme than emacs or vi.  I also kind of want a
> chording keyboard on my left now as a result.
>
> The necessary momentum to make people change their minds on some
> things can be really difficult to achieve, and sometimes the effort to
> learn something better does distract from the focus of getting work
> done.  In effect better becomes the enemy of good enough (Voltaire?)
>
> So that's why people still use Fortran on giant MPI clusters :-).  And
> why Lisp will never take over the world, and why Acme will always be
> subject to patches to make cursors move with arrow keys.
>
> I think it's just human nature.
>