Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!uflorida!mailrus!cornell!rochester!daemon From: @DOUGHNUT.CS.ROCHESTER.EDU:miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder improvements Message-ID: <1988Nov23.153852.17569@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 23 Nov 88 20:38:52 GMT Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 33 From: Brad Miller Date: 23 Nov 88 01:52:32 GMT From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) Though I think 2 or 3 buttons are far too many, if a manufacturer insists on having more than one button on a mouse, I think it very important that they not be distinguished only by left/right (shame on you nExt!), new Microsoft mice are better than the old in this respect. Far too many normal people get left and right confused--just imagine how dislexics feel. I've been using a 3 button mouse on my Symbolics for years. No-one at our site has ever complained about it -- they only complained about the old Xerox two button mouse as not being enough buttons. 5 buttons anyone? (thumb can be a shift key).. One thing the Symbolics/Explorer lets you do is use shifty keys with the mouse, so shift-left is equivalent to double-click left. You can then disable double click entirely and just use shift. Of course, you still have control, meta, super, hyper, and symbol to put additional combinations on the mouse. A pity when apple redesigned their keyboard they a) didn't include more shift keys and b) decided on such a lousy key arrangement. Control is used almost as often as shift in a real editor (that is, EMACS or derivatives) and should be as easy to hit as shift is. All shift keys should be duplicated on both sides of the spacebar for touch typing as well... ---- Brad Miller U. Rochester Comp Sci Dept. miller@cs.rochester.edu {...allegra!rochester!miller}