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From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The Misused Mouse
Date: Mon,  9 Jul 2007 15:50:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834F4A12-EA1C-4232-910E-00B5AD48CC58@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <164443fb91281ed3622f69f476fb434e@csplan9.rit.edu>

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That depends on if I already had the mouse in my hand.  And which  
window has focus.  And if the command had a parameter.

Remember: line editing forces higher concentration on the task at hand.

Paul

On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:45 PM, john@csplan9.rit.edu wrote:

>> http://hci-matters.com/blog/?p=8
>> Just keep in mind, there's one right way to do everything.  (sigh)
>
> Yes, look at the poor proletariot, pretending that ctrl-s is faster  
> than
> grabbing the mouse and mid-clicking on "Put"! Fallacy.
>
> If anybody needs me, I'll be burning my keyboard at the Altar of
> The Mouse.
>
>
> John
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 22:17 David Leimbach
2007-07-09 22:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-07-09 22:43   ` Paul Lalonde
2007-07-10 13:52     ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-07-09 22:45 ` john
2007-07-09 22:50   ` Paul Lalonde [this message]

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