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From: cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NOT (click to type) in NeXTStep?
Summary: rn at our site is screwed...
Keywords: SORRY
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.065703.17997@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 06:57:03 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.075848.3527@engin.umich.edu>
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In article <1990Nov6.075848.3527@engin.umich.edu> cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett) writes:
>It's funny to hear that someone actually LIKES move to focus.  Sure its nice to
>be able to type blind every once in awhile, but more often than not it sends me
>clamoring to find out where I'd typed 'make' in my source code.  I admit that
>I am not the greatest typist but when typing in a unix command I like to SEE 
>what I am typing.  I have also only used X on DEC 3000/5100 (?) but 
>move to focus is REALLY annoying on them because you can only bring the window
>to the front by clicking on a button at the top of the window.  I have wasted
>more time trying to move a window to the front than I have ever saved by being
>able to type without a window being key.  It's also annoying to have a window
>come up and have your input redirected to that window just because it happened
>to come up underneath your mouse pointer.
>
>According to human factors work, you only waste .1 second clicking the mouse 
>and since you have to move the mouse to activate another window anyway (~1.2
>seconds) I think I'd rather have the whole thing take ~8% longer just to avoid
>the above headaches.
>
>Just one man's opinion,
>R Eric Bennett
>cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu
>cerberus@itl.itd.umich.edu (NeXT mail)
>

Sorry about this article being posted 4 times.

Explanation:
We have a problem with our rn program.  It gives a segmentation fault when
trying to post a follow-up article.  To get around it, I have to execute the
send command from a shell.  I didn't think that the article was getting posted
so I tried aliasing the entire command and writing a script and alias a source
call of the script, etc.  The four articles were a result of that. I was going
to cancel them but I got t he old segmentation fault when trying to cancel and
I haven't had time to post another article explaining the four copies.

Sorry,
Eric Bennett
cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu

PS Yes I do think it is rather ironic, paradoxical, etc. to take up bandwidth
   by apologizing about taking up bandwidth.  But I felt it should be done.