> I spend relatively little of my time actually typing > or moving the cursor, etc. The majority of my time > is spent thinking, so I'm much more interested in > what distracts me less and what causes the least > irritation. And I do find moving my hand back and > forth between the keyboard and mouse to be a > bit irritating. I will say, however, that I find acme > to be the least irritating of the pointer-based > applications I've used.
perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs require to be quite irritating indeed. fumbling for the esc key takes ones left hand out of position as much as grabbing the mouse does for the right hand. i've enjoyed using ibm's trackpoint, but i've got two thumbs and acme needs three buttons. clearly there's room for improvement in input devices. - erik
