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Not academic, but vim has some serious range. I really wish more apps made an effort to be mouse free. But I also wish plan9 got more awareness. Unix pipes are
by ianai 8y ago
Not academic, but vim has some serious range. I really wish more apps made an effort to be mouse free.
But I also wish plan9 got more awareness. Unix pipes are so useful that it’s a shame the plan9 paradigms have largely been ignored or reinvented.
- majewsky 8y agoCan you recommend a place where I can read about these "plan9 paradigms"? I have an interest in it from a design perspective, but don't quite have time to read the source code.
- ianai 8y agoLook up a YouTube of somebody using it and discussing its features. Basically you could mount computational resources like cpus/ram/network/etc from an external resource server. It also had a graphical equivalent to the Unix pipe between applications.
- glangdale 8y agoThe original paper on acme is here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/ Acme was different to the 'sam' editor and most other Plan 9 programs up to that point (aside from its predecessor, "help", a similar system that was replaced by acme).
- threatofrain 8y agoTyping only on the keyboard can be very nice for posture, but I feel that Vim users may think slightly differently if people invented a better keyboard with a pointer device attached. Then you wouldn't be "taking your hands off the keyboard", you'd just be engaging in a different motion.
- minieggs 8y agoSimilar to the "KeyMouse" keyboard?
- mst 8y agoThat's how I feel when using a keyboard with an integrated trackpoint. Not everybody agrees, of course.
- threatofrain 8y agoWhat keyboards have worked out for you?
- css 8y agoTex Yoda II: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3532 https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det...
- mst 8y agoThinkpad external keyboards, both USB and bluetooth - currently typing on one of the former, with one of the latter in my jacket pocket for use with my android tablet.
- wasdfff 8y agoI’m suprised no one tried an eye tracking cursor
- anoncake 8y agoI dont think eye tracking is precise enough for that.