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From: gww@aphasia.UUCP (George Williams)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Why I am afraid of mice
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 14:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 14:07:32 1985
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I have recently be force to play with Macintoshes and Lisas, and would like
to describe some of my thoughts on using their editors.

Firstly the editors are very easy to use, I read no documentation (I had none)
and was able to get to work almost at once. There are about five pull down menus
at the top of the screen (worked by a mouse) and are all fairly
self-explainitory for anyone who has ever edited.

The most difficult thing I found was to create a new file, instead of having a
menu item called "Create New File", there is something called "Tear Off
Stationary" (hardly intuitive to my mind) which then asks you for a stationary
file to tear off of (I have no notion what this may mean, I always used the
default).

The thing I dislike most about the editors is that I am forced to use a mouse.
When I edit I don't want to lift my hands off the keyboard, I don't even like
reaching over to a set of function keys, it slows me down. But if I have to
reach over to the mouse, and move it all around the screen to get anything
done, I have to stop typing. Another obnoxious habit of the mouse is that its
cursor does not follow me as I type, this means that if I make a mistake on
the previous word after typing for 4 pages solid then I have to move the mouse
forward 4 pages.

I suggest that until humans evolve a third hand (or someone puts a keyboard
on a mouse) that these little beasts be called snails instead.

				George Williams
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