> "Indeed, for random access on screen, there is no better alternative than the mouse or trackpoint" There should be. Touchscreen. Eye tracking. With a mouse I

> "Indeed, for random access on screen, there is no better alternative than the mouse or trackpoint" There should be. Touchscreen. Eye tracking. With a mouse I have to go via a silly walk[1] moving my arm and scraping a chunk of plastic over a desk as a proxy for scraping a mouse pointer over the screen. With a keyboard I have to invent a magical incantation of button presses to poke the state machine and make the cursor do a silly walk over the lines/rows/words/brackets/search term/etc. from where it is to where I want it to be. Why can't I look and "go there" directly without either silly walk? [1] https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-53TOKiAMoow/VD0EeGQ24oI/AAAAAAAAW3A/CFCQb3XD4OE/s1600/Ministry%2Bof%2BSilly%2BWalks.gif https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-53TOKiAMoow/VD0EeGQ24oI/AAAAAAAAW...