It would appear that on Aug 1, Steve Litt did say:

> You, my friend, are a prime candidate for two free software offerings I use 
> on 
> a daily, no, a minutely basis: Umenu and VimOutliner.
        <<Big Snip>>
> We keyboard types haven't gotten the respect we deserved ever since Windows 
> 3.0 raised its ugly head, but these two programs were built from the bottom 
> up 
> for touch typists.

Thank you for the info Steve... Though I'm not so sure that I'm quite right
for those two applications. I am however glad they are out there. I'm
not exactly a professional writer and frankly I wouldn't know what
to do with an outliner... As far as menu applications go you make this
umenu sound interesting. But I prefer to use the command line, usualy from an 
xterm
For example the most common way that I invoke LyX is via a bash
script which amongst other things, opens a half dozen specific .lyx
documents. If I want a generic lyx session I'd use <alt>+<F2> lyx<enter> 
About the only use I have for an application menu is to find the
ones I don't use often enough to call up on the command line. And
whatever system menu is installed with the linux distro usualy has
most of those. Now if this umenu can be configured to totally ignore the
current position of the mouse pointer, then I will find it a bit more
interesting... (I really dislike it when a menu pattern that began
with the keyboard happens to intersect the mouse and further menu
control keystrokes no longer have the same results as if the
mouse pointer wasn't there...)

But by the way. I'm a far cry from a "touch typist" the same problems
that make mouse manipulations difficult for me make it down right
painful (quickly leading to numbness) to position my hands and stretch
my fingers to hit the same key with the same finger all the time. If
however I use a slightly more coordinated than a hunt and peck typing
system where at any given time I might use any given finger of either
hand to hit any given key depending on which finger or hand has
had longer to rest... Then I can keypunch for hours and hours before my
hands begin to go numb.

I dislike mouse methods because I can't keep the dang pointer where
I want it, long enough to click on it... And about the only thing
that makes my hand go numb faster than the time I tried to learn
touch typing is continuous mouse operations. Plus labels mean more
to me than icons ever will, and mouse tools seam to love icons...

-- 
|    ^^^   ^^^
|    <o>   <o>       Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|        ^                J(tWdy)P
|       ___            <<jtw...@ttlc.net>>
|           
|      <sigh>


Reply via email to