Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

[simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com>]

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I still think your contribution is null and irritating.
First of all, it's too long and it doesn't say anything of essence.
What's all this mumbling about your girlfriend and gamers?

Thanks for suggesting that I try and use vim in unix.
I am 26 years old now. I have been using vim since I was 17 if I remember
correctly,
when, by the way, I was developing exploits for the x86 architecture as a
hobby, and
and now I am a post graduate student in Computer Science.
I have never developed anything in windows, and I rarely even do anything in
windows,
if that says something to you about my familiarity with the unix console &
the keyboard.

I just happened to stumble upon Acme, and I gave it a try.
After nearly a decade of using vim, I decided to ditch it for Acme (which i
have been using for the past month),
because I do think it's better for my purposes.

If your read Rob Pike's paper on acme, you might find that there is some
credibility behind the argument
that mousing is sometimes smoother for programming, than exclusively relying
on keyboard shortcuts.
Now quit your frothing at the mouth because you discovered Linux and vim.

Simon


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:47 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:23 AM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135
> >> Dave
> >
> > The best part of these kind of threads is how they bring out all the
> > people who we've never, ever seen post before--the "been meaning to
> > try this Plan 9 thing" brigade, etc.
> >
> > John
> >
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> I wrote up the wiki for the plan 9 guruplug port, and I do stuff with it.
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> Don't assume that quiet means we aren't using plan 9.  It might mean we are
> too busy to stop and talk.
>
> If I would have known the religious poop tossing that this link would have
> caused, I wouldn't have posted it.
>

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