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To:	John Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Jul 93 22:43:15 EDT."
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Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 1993 23:53:59 -0400
From:	"Ozan S. Yigit" <oz@sis.yorku.ca>


> And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.

just because he eliminated click-to-type? But look what Rob
later wrote[1]:

	"Several interrelated rules were followed in the design of
	the interface. These rules are intented to make the system as
	efficient and comfortable as possible for its _users_. First,
	_brevity_: there should be no actions in the interface - button
	clicks or other gestures - that do not directly affect the
	system. Thus, help is not a `click-to-type' system because that
	click is wasted; there are no pop-up menus because the gesture
	required to make them appear is wasted; and so on."

so, sam is halfclick there. ;-)

oz
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[1] R. Pike
    A Minimalist Global User Interface
    Proceedings of the Summer 1991 Usenix Conference
    Nashwille, Tenn.