On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM, <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.
The weirdest thing about piano for me (typist first) is pressing more than one key at once very often. That really bemused me. > >> contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs >> require to be quite irritating indeed. fumbling for > > I don't disagree with you there. vi isn't so bad because it has a huge command language. I was always fond of it, but now I'm appreciating sam's more spartan, elegant command set more. > >> 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. Indeed. I remap caps to be escape, someplace where it should be. > >> 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. I like Apple's new mice, but you can't chord with them. I got it before I got into plan 9. Now I want to chuck it.
