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Re: Popup versus pulldown menues

It's not clear which is faster -- pull down menues, or pop-up menues.
With popup menues you normally have a stack of menues to choose from.
Often, you must click twice to get your selection (choose a stack,
make a selection).  Xerox systems "remember" the last stack, so
sometimes you only need to choose once.

Is it faster to click twice, or to zing over to the menu bar, and
back?  I doubt it, especially if you are running a powermouse program
(an acceleration-base mouse movement magnifier).  With a powermouse
program, a click vertical jerk will send you mouse flying to the top
of screen, and you can get back just as easily.

Re: Input focus where mouse is

I don't think I'd like this.  Why should your mouse cursor ALWAYS
obscure the window you're operating in?  On a Mac II, it will blink
incessantly as you scroll!  Irritating!

Xerox has a nice modeless copy: Select an insertion point.  Hold down
the move or copy key.  Select some text.  Release the key and WHAMMO.
The text teleports to the insertion point.  I like this a lot better
than trying to remember what's on the clipboard.  This certainly does
not fit the paradigm of "input where the mouse is".