Re: [9fans] The 2-1 chord in P9Ports Acme (Mac OS)

["Rubén Berenguel" <ruben@mostlymaths.net>]

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Oh I wasn't meaning Apple forbids 3-button mice, but just a side remark at
the fact that they only create one-buttoned things. I do have a 3-button
mouse I plug occasionally to my Mac, but most often than not I forget it at
home (or I'm too lazy to pick it up) and having this keyboard fallback is
neat: so far I have used 2-1 VERY sparingly because of it.

There's also a patch lying in the internet (or the group archives) using
trackpad gestures to get this. I think having gestures is a good way to go
in this particular case, but since my Mac is old I don't have multitouch by
default (I have a Magic Trackpad for that.) I think I will add that patch
and check how good gestures feel for the chording in Acme.

I'm not sure how/what could be used as gestures in a "Plan9 world" but this
is probably because I don't use Plan9 enough... I do use Acme daily for my
unorganized writing and occasional go tinkering (still not far from being a
"hello world" go programmer,) emacs for the rest of the writing. What do
you think would fit the model (inside Acme, I mean)?

Thanks,

Ruben


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:24 AM, <a@9srv.net> wrote:

> Apple has no such "odd stance" against multi-button mice.
> Buy one and plug it in. It's worked just fine at least since OS X
> came out. The chording will be vastly more comfortable that
> way. The keyboard mapping (even with your patch, which
> does seem to be an improvement) is intended as a fallback.
>
> It would be interesting to see more experiments using these
> devices multitouch capabilities in the context of the plan 9
> graphics model.
>
> Anthony
>
>
>

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