badri@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan) (04/05/89)
In article <6883@cg-atla.UUCP> (newsgroup comp.lang.c), duane@cg-atla.UUCP (Andrew Duane) writes: >We modified EMACS here to use the mouse to position >around in the buffer and between windows. After a couple of >weeks of playing with it ("Boy, isn't this NEATO KEEN!") >everyone stopped using it. I don't even know if the mouse code >is even compiled into it any more. The moral: I don't know >what. But it certainly doesn't make sense to use the mouse for >everything. VI's h/j/k/l sucks big-time, yes. Is a mouse the >the answer, no. In article <9984@smoke.BRL.MIL> (newsgroup comp.lang.c), gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: > >Be careful to distinguish between a particular use of a mouse, >which may indeed not be advantageous depending on the particular design, >and use of mice in general. > >I stopped using our EMACS editors for most purposes once Rob Pike's "sam" >editor became available. Its use of the mouse is cleanly integrated into >the design of the editor's bitmap interface, not just tacked on as an >afterthought. It makes a considerable difference. I included Doug's posting coz' he is making a pertinent point. Now kids, lets' all sing together, accompanied by the groaning of a macintosh disk drive: "A purely mouse-based editor, Would be a real pain in the arm: If I only had one hand." To those who do not like vi hjkl movement, look for a better nit to pick (and there a few :-). If your terminal has arrow keys, make the following maps: <esc>[A k [A k <esc>[B j [B j <esc>[D h [D h <esc>[C l [C l Now you do not even have to hit the escape key to move around and it will work regardless of you are in insert or command mode. Modeless? Well, partly. If your terminal does not have the arrow keys (or any equivalent,) chances are that it is too primitive for fancy editors anyway. -- "I care about my fellow man {) badri@ee.rochester.edu Being taken for a ride, //\\ {ames,cmcl2,columbia,cornell, I care that things start changing ///\\\ garp,harvard,ll-xn,rutgers}! But there's no one on my side."-UB40 _||_ rochester!ur-valhalla!badri