From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 mice From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <20040415093650.209d0af0.martin@parvat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:46:25 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ba1d6ba-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>How constrained do the non-chording folks feel by the current acme interface? it will be less than the severe constraint felt by those who chord, who are stuck without chording in nearly every other interface known to man, which nevertheless are full of unbelievably many utterly trivial and silly things that don't actually help you get your work done. the arrival of chording was the first time (apart from Oberon, same thing only more so) i had seen a `look and feel' that actually `felt' different: once you get used to it, it feels as if you're grabbing text directly from the screen with the mouse (and the `undo' effect is important too). one current exception is Opera, which does use chording a bit.