On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 14:12, Roman V. Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 23:09 -0800, Russ Cox wrote: >> > 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. > > It sure was ;-) But... > >> Forsyth had a particularly lucid summary of a study by Tognazzi >> showing that mouse editing was faster but that keyboard editing >> felt faster: > > ... I've seen this study and I tend to believe it. But there's a gotcha: > the kind of work that I and other software engineers do with computers > is almost orthogonal to what the study was focusing on. I don't believe > anybody else, but engineers, spend the majority of time dealing with > text.
Who do you think Plan 9 was designed for and by? Maybe you should try using the system without all your preconceived notions of what should and should not be. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
