>>4 There is a place for mouse use, selecting functions isn't it. Unfortunately that's essentially the primary thing it's being used for so it understandably gets a bad rep. If only there were some kind of counter example... See, the true utility of a mouse, amazing as it is, is selecting positions. Art tools, cad software, hell even spreadsheet software, all use this quite well, some of the time. It's much much much easier and faster to see that there is something wrong 'there' and point to it with the mouse than to figure out the correct number of lines to move down then words to move across, as an example. *cough*vi is just a shitty extension to ed, and the ed way (regex) is often better than my example, and can be done in vi, but that is neither here nor there*cough* putting features/functions at locations and making all functionality go through that layer does suck. Having context menus that pop up at the mouse location is better. Being able to send any text on screen to a context interpreter which handles the text to "do the right thing" in a tightly integrated system, by just clicking it seems better than hotkeys. Don't get me wrong, having hotkeys is great, if you want to store that information in your brain. I'd rather store that in a file. But the problem with hotkeys in the consumer space is multiplied by incompatibilities between vendors and even versions. No one has a problem remembering ^c+v ^c+c ^c+x because it became universal. let us pray for the zoomers who will never learn these things
But ima be 900% with you. If you are so keyboard pilled, vim is shit. learn emacs, coward.
There is a place for mouse use, selecting functions isn't it. Unfortunately that's essentially the primary thing it's being used for so it understandably gets a bad rep.
If only there were some kind of counter example...
See, the true utility of a mouse, amazing as it is, is selecting positions. Art tools, cad software, hell even spreadsheet software, all use this quite well, some of the time. It's much much much easier and faster to see that there is something wrong 'there' and point to it with the mouse than to figure out the correct number of lines to move down then words to move across, as an example.
*cough*vi is just a shitty extension to ed, and the ed way (regex) is often better than my example, and can be done in vi, but that is neither here nor there*cough*
putting features/functions at locations and making all functionality go through that layer does suck. Having context menus that pop up at the mouse location is better. Being able to send any text on screen to a context interpreter which handles the text to "do the right thing" in a tightly integrated system, by just clicking it seems better than hotkeys. Don't get me wrong, having hotkeys is great, if you want to store that information in your brain. I'd rather store that in a file. But the problem with hotkeys in the consumer space is multiplied by incompatibilities between vendors and even versions. No one has a problem remembering ^c+v ^c+c ^c+x because it became universal. let us pray for the zoomers who will never learn these things
But ima be 900% with you. If you are so keyboard pilled, vim is shit. learn emacs, coward.