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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Mouse Feats
Message-ID: <970@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 89 23:06:33 GMT
References: <1989Apr6.183222.17943@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <9642@claris.com>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <9642@claris.com> krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes:
>Several people have raised objections to mice with the legitimate complaint
>that they are fast typists and don't want to remove their hands from the 
>keyboard to hit the mouse.

>There is a solution which I actually use if I have to do a lot of typing.
>I put something hard (like a book) on the floor, stick the mouse down there
>and use my feet.  Admittedly, you have to be barefoot to get the most use
>out of this idea, and the fewer buttons the better.
 
>You were born with four limbs, not two.  Why not use them?
 
   If I took off my shoes my office-mate would beat me :-)

   Besides, who has enough toe-dexterity to double-click?

   Something I recently found out: on my VAXstation I can use

   CTRL/SHIFT/arrow to move the mouse and CTRL/SHIFT/SELECT to click,

   not the handiest key-sequence but it is real nice when you want
   to move something exactly horizontally or vertically.

   (How did this topic ever get in this group?)