On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:51:32PM -0400, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > The mouse is a big deal with any editor. Emacs and Xemacs fail utterly > to take full > advantage of the mouse, or even of the pc101 keyboard. They don't even > use the delete key in a sane manner.
I agree - although from a pure usability perspective, an editor *should* be workable without the mouse at all. By definition, while using an editor, your hands will naturally be on the keyboard. Having to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse should be unnecessary to accomplish any given task. However, if someone wants to use the mouse for something, I don't think that should be denied - as long as a keyboard-based alternative exists. > Sorry to have upset you. Scrollbars belong on the left. ;-) How so? I'm interested in hearing the usability basis for this. Not that I disagree - but it seems more "natural" for me to have a scrollbar on the right-hand side of the window. I do recognize, however, that many "older" *nix apps (emacs, xterm, etc...) default to having the scrollbar on the left. I'm just curious as to the reasons behind it =) -b3
