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

[Cameron Patrick]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:41:35PM +0800, James would have preferred
me to have written:

| > So[,] are you saying you prefer all-keyboard[] 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.)

*grumble*

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:23:19PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| > | Yes and yes, dagnabit.
| > 
| > Yuck.  You can add this to your list of reasons why I'm for "The Other
| > Side" then :-P
| 
| With regards to all-keyboard copy and paste, I prefer at times because
| it takes just as long to reach over the the mouse, position the cursor,
| click, hold, drag, get the multiple lines selected properly, release,
| move the mouse and click to paste as it does to navigate with the
| keyboard and do the copy/paste (in screen, say). Two different ways of
| doing the same thing.

Yes.  I use all-keyboarded (ha! it's my message and I'll use keyboard as a
verb if I want to) copying on those occasions where it is more
convenient - like, say, just about all the time when I'm using vim ;-)

But copying between multiple windows generally involves using the mouse
anyway, and I'd rather not use a method that requires extra hand-hand
coordination.  (Hmm, could that be another point against a buttonless
mouse?  It would require similar feats of manual dexterity to playing a
piano. ... I wonder if anyone has used a foot pedal as an input device
to a computer? Googling for "foot pedal keyboard" produces a lot of
piano-related stuff and as well as:
	http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Alt_2c_20Shift_20_26_20Ctrl_20Foot_20Pedals
Apparently it's baked.  And "foot pedal mouse" came up with another
interesting-ish page:
	http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives/9403/techwhirl-9403-00032.html
Most peculiar.)

Cameron.


| -- 
| I might have forgotten to add these:
| ;-) :-) ;-P :-P