[OT] Buttonless mice [was: Re: [plug] Good GUI Interface Design]

[James Devenish]

In message <20031220084135.GI1152 at erdos.home>
on Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:41:35PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Probably.  I wasn't really thinking deeply about it, and I've no idea
> what similar things people may have done in the past.

What about those things for which you can supposedly "point using the
gaze of your eyes". How do they handle button actions?

> So are you saying you prefer all-keyboarded copy/paste to X-style, or
> that you prefer to use mixed mouse/Ctrl-C/mouse/CtrlV-style copy and
> paste?  (And don't answer "yes".  I know you would given the chance.)

Yes and yes, dagnabit.

> | But vim /can/ share the X11 buffers: try "*p to paste from the X11
> | visual selection (see also ':help x11-selection' for other buffers).
> 
> Ooh, nice!  So that's why vim tries to connect to X every time it
> starts.

There are other reasons (features), too. I sometimes leave X support
disabled in my .vimrc, though.

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