Wanna do something?

Lawson English english at primenet.com
Tue Jun 20 20:11:28 UTC 2000


Blah, blah, blah Dvorak vs QWERTY.



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>From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu>
>To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>Subject: Re: Wanna do something?
>Date: Tue, Jun 20, 2000, 12:56 PM
>

> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Henrik Gedenryd wrote:
>
>> Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
>>
>> >> I rather like this behavior, much of the time. Preserving it as at least a
>> >> preference would be my, er, preference.
>> >
>> > Just for curiosity, is Squeak's feel like selecting text works on the mac?
>>
>> No it ain't. I too agree that this should be fixed. For once I don't
>> understand Bijarne's preference at all--it seems like a plain bug to me :)
>
> Nisus Writer's worked that way for a while, and I love it. I wish the
> mouse worked the same way! I *hate* pivot select.
>
> Most of the time, I hit my selection with a mouse, toward the middle (or,
> at least *inside* what I want to select, not on an endpoint). So selection
> extention selectoin in both directions is *just the right thing*! With
> pivoting, I'm always having to reclick, or click *way* more carefully,
> because the selection point is *never* in the "right spot". I don't know
> how the rest of you do it.
>
> Blah blah Fitt's law blah blah bigger target blab blah arthritic types
> blah blabh small kids blah blah obviously leads to  massive squeak
> acceptance by the masses of the world.
>
> Did I convince anyone? :)





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