Re: [9fans] text editor

[Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 nigel@9fs.org wrote:

> To recap the logic (it has been repeated many times in the archives),
> once you switch to mouse centric operation, you become faster, not
> slower.  It may be counterintuitive, but I believe it has been shown
> by research, not that I can quote anything.  You have to move your
> hands to get to the cursor keys

..... unless you have sensible mappings for them - hjkl works fine, as
far as I'm concerned.  Not to (re)start religious wars, but... mouse
pretty much requires visual feedback.  I.e. you need to watch the
screen while you are using it.  Which is bloody inconvenient in a lot
of situations.  FWIW, I still prefer vi, but using sam as extended ed
works for me...