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Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?
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Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions? |
Date: |
Fri, 24 May 2002 17:49:05 +0000 (UTC) |
Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
I don't have mouse-2 on my laptop. I can use all GNOME & KDE
applications just fine, but Emacs is almost unusable until I plug
in an external mouse.
I am very confused: how can Emacs be `almost unusable' without an
external mouse? What I am trying to get at is, what user-model are
you presuming?
Clearly, a user-model that always presumes access to a 3 button mouse
produces a quite different user interface requirements than a
user-model that presumes access to a 3 button mouse only some of the
time.
(Similarly, a user-model that presumes the user is always going to
remain a novice leads to a different user interface than a user-model
that presumes the user starts as a novice but can learn.)
(You don't need a mouse for Emacs. Indeed, about a half hour ago, I
was connected, via an ssh hop to a machine and then from there via
telnet, through a slow connection (perhaps 1200 baud; traceroute
indicated some sort of trouble in Newark, NJ) to a third machine,
using Emacs without a mouse.)
--
Robert J. Chassell address@hidden
Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, (continued)
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/05/21
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/05/21
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Miles Bader, 2002/05/21
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/22
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Miles Bader, 2002/05/22
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/22
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/23
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/05/25
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/05/25
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Miles Bader, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/05/24
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Richard Stallman, 2002/05/25
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Simon Josefsson, 2002/05/25
- Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?, Miles Bader, 2002/05/25