-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-05-29 at 16:04 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
Joachim Schrod wrote:
Btw, tongue-in-cheek, I don't know what you mean with `multi-key sequences', the days of Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift are long gone; nowadays one uses the mouse
The purpose of 'vi' bindings was to allow those who had grown up having to take typing courses to edit efficiently. Taking your fingers off of home row to move to function keys, and especially, mice, has been shown to slow down most simple editing jobs. There are jobs for mouse and func-key -augmented GUI's -- but simple text entry/editing is made slower.
And did a bad job of it. Botched it, IMO. For a good keyboard interface, designed for touch typists (ie, professional or good typists), you have to go to the old Word Star, which interface has been sucessfuly cloned by several programs: notably the Borland IDE. In Linux is in use by the jstar flavor of joe. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkohCcMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X+PACaA32CPdE121SRBFLhXN2bJJOW E3EAn0RSYEmT22+hQvSSdKzOurX5ZIjR =O/WD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org