Matthew Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > >> <http://www.asktog.com/SunWorldColumns/S02KeyboardVMouse3.html> > > An interesting story. They say they picked a test for the express > purpose of proving that in some circumstances cursor keys can be faster > than the mouse, but came up with an exercise in which, unusually, the > keyboard part can be performed with one hand, so eliminating the bit > where the other hand moves from the keyboard to the mouse and back. > > -M- >
It's quite funny, that what the author proposes as "to make it even harder" actually speeds up the test for the mouse-users quite a bit. And "cursor keys"? Please, every self respecting editor has ways for moving around quite a bit more efficiently. And on top of that a use case, which no one in his right mind would do this way. Accomplishing this task with search-and-replace would have taken about 10 seconds. With Mouse or Keyboard. Regards, Manuel -- A hundred men did the rational thing. The sum of those rational choices was called panic. Neal Stephenson -- System of the world http://www.graune.org/GnuPG_pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 1E44 9CBD DEE4 9E07 5E0A 5828 5476 7E92 2DB4 3C99 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list