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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:46:33 +0100
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] RFC: menu server for UI
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I have never used GIS software but used to do circuit design with cad software.
My favorite by a hugue margin was Viewlogic. It had (has ?) a gui which allowed
you to select and move components about, but that worked closely coupled
with keyboard commands - net to add a wire, bus to add a group of wires,
a component name to place a named object from the library (IC, resistor etc).

The use of a command window with a mouse based gui was very expressive and
though there where optional pull down windows I never needed nor wanted them.

-Steve