From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme (was: p9 mice) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:50:45 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 630dfa50-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I adore acme -- mostly because i adore chording, which never struck me as something particularly hard to get used to. My first linux chord using the acme in ports was a jubilant day. Cut-chording from 9term and pasting into the browser is sweet, sweet icing. I do have a few complaints about acme, though, and perhaps it's just because I haven't found the 'right' way (as is quite often the case 'round these parts). Conditional search and replace is one -- I type the word i'm looking for in the header, chord cut/paste it for a snarf, then right-click. I continue right- clicking on the matches until I find one I want to replace, do so with a double-first-third and now I have to drag back up to the bar to right-click on the word again. Do this several times and you wish you had an equivalent to the 'n' key to hit. Another that comes to mind is cursor teleport when I try to delete a modified window (ie: win). Make me click Del twice, fine, but the current mechanism seems to violate both 'minimize mouse activity' and 'don''t second-guess the user.' Lastly, the window headers can be a pain to leave the mouse over for typing. Quite often in the draw- right-hand-back-to-the-keyboard I nudge the little fella ever so and end up typing in the window body. Undo, re-place mouse, move more carefully, etc. These are tiny issues compared to the benefit I get using it, though. Sam