On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:00:01 -0500 blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: > > perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the > > That's an interesting observation. As it turns out I > do play, and it's certainly possible that it colors my > taste in UIs. > > > contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs > > require to be quite irritating indeed. fumbling for > > I don't disagree with you there.
Me either, I like vi better than emacs simply because it requires fingertwisting much more rarely. > > > the esc key takes ones left hand out of position > > I'm less sensitive to esc, probably because I used teco > heavily in college. Of course, the fact that esc is in > the wrong place on current keyboards doesn't help > any. I wish I'd kept the original IBM PC (Not AT) keyboard I had. Esc was at the left of 1, and the numeric pad wasn't stupidly far off to the right. Linux has a driver for PC keyboards too. > > > 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. > > Agreed on both points. > > BLS > > -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
