Kaldrenon wrote: > I don't think anyone can make the argument that any (past or current) > graphics-based editor is as efficient when being used to its fullest > as a text-based editor.
Actually, I think the argument can be made: ``We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: * Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.'' (from http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html ) However, at least for me, heavy mousing is stressful to the wrist, so I prefer to keep my hands on the keyboard (even though I use a trackball, which greatly reduces the strain for me). I also think that while intuitive cursor positioning and text selection operations may be faster with a mouse, complex operations (like on the shell or complex editor commands) are impractical through a pure point+click interface. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list