From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:09:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0901262309x237bc557lcabee54a31d95be2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B54C3146-ECC1-4336-8B76-A355B3960F7D@sun.com>
> Do you enjoy mouse editing? May be I'm just an old
> TTY junkie, but for me mouse is a device that lets me
> switch between Xterms with screens(1) in them ;-)
This particular topic has been discussed to death in the past.
Forsyth had a particularly lucid summary of a study by Tognazzi
showing that mouse editing was faster but that keyboard editing
felt faster:
it was something like this: the use of keys+commands
required a higher level of mental planning to organise the interaction,
which apparently obscures the perception of the passage of time--think
of being deeply engaged in something and being surprised when you look
at a clock--
whereas the use of the mouse was done at a lower, mechanical level that
left the mind free for higher things, such as complaining about the mouse.
http://9fans.net/archive/2002/04/313
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 10:03 pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-23 10:50 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-01-23 11:27 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-23 11:35 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-01-23 12:56 ` roger peppe
2009-01-23 14:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-26 12:41 ` cej
2009-01-26 10:31 ` pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-27 3:29 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 3:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 4:43 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 6:35 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-27 6:44 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-27 20:01 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 20:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:01 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-27 22:58 ` sqweek
2009-01-27 23:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-28 0:35 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-01-28 5:59 ` lucio
2009-01-28 19:00 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-28 22:19 ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-01-28 22:51 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-01-29 0:26 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 2:09 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 8:49 ` cej
2009-01-29 11:50 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-01-29 13:04 ` roger peppe
2009-01-29 13:53 ` cej
2009-01-29 16:14 ` jimmy brisson
2009-01-29 13:53 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 15:20 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 16:40 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-29 16:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-29 17:03 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-01-29 17:09 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-01-27 7:09 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-01-27 22:12 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:25 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 22:31 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 22:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 22:50 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 23:11 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-27 23:40 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-28 3:15 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-01-28 7:22 ` Eris Discordia
2009-01-27 23:01 ` sqweek
2009-01-26 10:31 ` pavel.klinkovsky
2009-01-27 3:21 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-01-27 9:37 ` Pavel Klinkovsky
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