Re: [9fans] Alternative to fine-grained mouse usage?

[Paul Lalonde <paul.a.lalonde@gmail.com>]

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There's a huge difference using my mouse in Plan9 than in Plan9port on my
mac.  Plan9 feels almost unusable by comparison.  I suspect much of this is
the very finely tuned acceleration/fine-pointing behavior of the mouse on
modern desktop platforms.
That's probably a ripe space for improving the Plan9 user experience.

I wish there were better accessibility solutions for Plan9 as regards the
mouse.  That's likely another ripe area for tuning - taking advantage of
Fitts' law in UI interactions (with a real acceleration/precision model)
would be nice.  There's few enough UI elements in our toolkit that it might
even be feasible to do as a hobbyist.

Paul

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 7:53 PM <umbraticus@prosimetrum.com> wrote:

> > needing to copy/paste previous commands in terminal windows, etc.
> 
> see " and "" scripts
> 
> The finnicky mouse stuff is indeed an annoyance in acme.  I use sam &
> a trackball & a huge font.  some conveniences have been added to sam,
> ^B and ^G to switch from sam window and back to buffer.  Make use of
> <>!| commands and so on...  standard ^W ^U ^A ^E stuff...  plumbing,
> searching, command language.  rio window placement mostly automated.
> I have sam just open files fullscreen automatically, which is quite nice…
> 
> umbraticus

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