From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:09:20 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] Small program "PlanKey" (paraphrase of DOSKey) From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 89af00a8-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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