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I think it depends on the task at hand, whether you are jumping around or focused on a long piece; exploring or debugging ... Anyway, not everything takes plac

I think it depends on the task at hand, whether you are jumping around or focused on a long piece; exploring or debugging ... Anyway, not everything takes place in the editor. "The acme user interface for programmers" (http://acme.cat-v.org/ http://acme.cat-v.org/) is a good inspiration. It focuses on mouse usage and shows how most systems are as nicely integrated as they could be. I have hacked together a setup that mimicks acme using a tiling wm, vim (and its amazing remote features), a plumber and a terminal that can send the current selection to the plumber. This way I use vim as I like but I can send it some path:line:col from anywhere with a right click.

somezero 9y ago
Could you explain more about integrating acme ideas into a tiling wm, or possibly share your dotfiles? I've tried doing that with i3, but the window manager has less than optimal mouse support to say the least, and wmii is dead.
- jeromenerf 9y ago
  See https://st.suckless.org/patches/right_click_to_plumb/ https://st.suckless.org/patches/right_click_to_plumb/ The setup requires: - a terminal that is aware of its shell current working directory (OSC7) (I use st or tmux and zsh) - a terminal that would call a plumbing command with the current selection on a mouse right click (I use st or tmux) - a plumbing command that would call the appropriate action given the selection string passed in (I use a script and plan9 plumber) - an editor that supports being called from the plumbing script (I use acme or vim remote with vim-fetch plugin) - an eventual tiling wm or tmux for window management My dotfiles aren't public but I guess I could try and package them if you're interested. PM me at the email on the suckless page.