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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Why I am afraid of mice
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 04:45:18 EDT
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> 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.

This is somewhat of a matter of personal taste; an editor we had at CCI used
function keys for a number of operations, and I got used to the keypad on a
VT100 and it didn't slow me down.  On the other hand, using control keys for
functions can be a pain, because on my Sun I sometimes miss the control key
and drop a letter into the file instead.

Editors should, however, give you accelerators for commonly-performed
functions; the Mac and Lisa editors do so (the Apple key on the Lisa and the
cloverleaf key on the Mac act as control/"code" keys).  A program which
qualifies as the Ferrari Testarossa of word processors - Interleaf, Inc.'s
<fill_in_the_blank> Publishing System (the blank fills up with different
names depending on which version you get) - is mouse based (and an Interleaf
person I saw using it was able to do picture editing *very* quickly with the
mouse).  However, it also has a number of control-key accelerators; they
resemble the commands of - well, take the name of this newsgroup and delete
the first four characters...

	Guy Harris