From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:13:08 -0500 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch In-Reply-To: <7d3530220611142057t45ce0f89nc8a20dea219b92ac@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <34D4933C-7C2E-4B31-A448-D630C8A699E1@orthanc.ca> <7d3530220611142057t45ce0f89nc8a20dea219b92ac@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0521718-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 If you want to do everything with the keyboard, you know where to find Emacs. This mail is a good summary of the mouse timing argument: http://9fans.net/archive/2002/04/313 When I'm doing a lot of typing and mouse motion at the same time, I typically just type with one hand and leave the other hand on the mouse. It's not as fast but it's just fine. In response to Lyndon's comment about chording on a scroll wheel mouse, yes you definitely don't want to do that. It's well worth it to buy a good mouse. I used to swear by the three-button Logitech ones (I still have a stash) but now I prefer the IBM three-button + scroll knob that has been mentioned on the list before. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-39116 Also IBM makes external mouse/keyboards with the 3-button thinkpad trackpoints on them. Russ