dexen deVries wrote:
On Wednesday 15 of June 2011 18:23:56 David Leimbach wrote:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135
I'm getting tired of the level of groupthink. Yesterday it was about
Anthropogenetic Global Warming^W^W^W Anthropogenic Climate Change (with a
comment stating pretty much ``whether the themperatures go up or down it will
be /obviously/ our fault anyway''); today it's mouse vs. keyboard. The
argument? ``it feels faster in my Vim''. Geebuz.
my take on it at
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657818
eh, I always figured that if you are proficient at a given interface
(you're over the learning curve) the differences here are minimal at
best. So what if I gain a few seconds here and there. I'm going to be
stuck behind the computer for a few hours anyway...
In the case of plan 9, I love how the textual interfaces it promotes
have *everything* in front of you. No bloody expanding menus, or
mouse-hover pop-up retardations. So nevermind the speed, it is the
consistency and elegance that should matter. For the sake of sanity,
not speed.
Would Plan 9 (rio) benefit from a default mapping of magic keystrokes
that correspond to certain actions? I think so. But only as a means of
saving your ass when your mouse explodes. Even then, grab another pc
and drawterm or cpu in.
I will say that some of the cool cording in Plan 9 interfaces will soon
find a perfect mate in the capacitive or infrared touchscreens of today
and tomorrow (single, double, triple finger taps on the screen, etc...).
That is my take anyway.
-Jack
