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Article #3579Re: hand injuries from EMACS
From: Jym Dyer
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:01
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:01
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=o= I got into this thread too late to catch the stuff leading
up to the summary.
> 10) Use a trackball in preference to a mouse.
=o= Absolutely. I've been using Emacs heavily for 13 years
now, and I've never had a problem with hand/wrist injury until
I hade to start using a mouse. I now use Emacs for so many
things specifically to avoid the mouse.
=o= The "sticky keys" idea somehow didn't make it into the
summary. Note that in most cases you can use an ESCAPE key
to act as a sticky META. If anyone has hints on implementing
a sticky CONTROL key, please pass them along.
=o= The "browse mode" idea also didn't make it into the
summary (though I'd call it "view mode," myself). I think
Emacs' "view mode" is implemented a little overbearingly,
but that's easily fixed. Hook it up to the reading of any
readonly buffer and you've made paging through a lot simpler.
<_Jym_>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!naughty-peahen From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs,sci.med.occupational Subject: Re: hand injuries from EMACS Date: 29 Jan 1993 00:01:59 GMT Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Jym.28Jan1993.1601@naughty-peahen> References: <1993Jan27.181411.9154@smos.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: david@smos.com's message of 27 Jan 93 18:14:11 GMT