Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!grep!frank From: frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: No, nobody is left-handed (update on mouse silliness) Message-ID: <1991Apr15.133113.2157@grep.co.uk> Date: 15 Apr 91 13:31:13 GMT References: <1991Apr8.194705.1225@ico.isc.com> <1991Apr9.062646.22750@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Apr10.145240.13222@grep.co.uk> Reply-To: frank@grep.co.uk (Frank Wales) Organization: Grep Limited, LEEDS, UK Lines: 26 In article mikeg@c3.c3.lanl.gov (Michael P. Gerlek) writes: >In article <1991Apr10.145240.13222@grep.co.uk> I wrote: >> Just to confuse you, I'm right-handed but use my mouse left-handed. >> I do this to have room on the right for my notepad, telephone and coffee. > >Okay, so being right-handed and all, this sounded like a good idea, so >I just sent my mouse over to the left side of my Sun and tried it that >way for five minutes. > >It's *amazingly* difficult to manage. Well, being able to used my right hand to write with and do other right- handed-type stuff is so important to me that you can bet I persevered for more than five minutes when I first tried this. I guess it depends what you use your mouse for; for me, it's mostly just window management. I found it also helps to have a keyboard with all shift-type keys on both sides of the main keyboard block; my current keyboard has two each of CTRL, ALT and SHIFT laid out symmetrically in the lower corners, meaning I don't need to reach across to the left of the keyboard for chording CTRL with mouse events. This layout also makes emacs easier to use, although it did give the designers an excuse to put CAPS LOCK next to A -- IMHO, CAPS LOCK should be somewhere more convenient; e.g., in another building. -- Frank Wales, Grep Limited, [frank@grep.co.uk<->uunet!grep!frank] Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, LEEDS, UK, LS19 7LX. (+44) 532 500303