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If you haven't seen acme in action, it is pretty crazy and interesting. Basically it makes heavy use of the mouse, and any typed word can be invoked like a comm

If you haven't seen acme in action, it is pretty crazy and interesting. Basically it makes heavy use of the mouse, and any typed word can be invoked like a command. Here is a tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

wyclif 14y ago
The mousing is what lost me. I love vim because you don't have to deal with the mouse at all.
- jff 14y ago
  The mousing is what adds a crazy amount of power. You end up with dozens of files on screen, some showing text, some just displayed as the "tag" line. You use the mouse to rapidly jump around them, select text from one, paste into another, etc. The mouse is a pointing device, why not use it to point at things? If I have 3 columns in my acme window (which I usually do) and I'm working in the 3rd file down in the left-most column, it's faster to get to the top file in the right-most column by just grabbing the mouse and clicking than by futzing with key combos.
  - wyclif 14y ago
    You make a good case for acme; I'd be willing to try it. But I'm not convinced that in any context grabbing the mouse (with or without chording) is faster than keying, esp. since in vim many of the most important navigational keys are on the home row.
    - jff 14y ago
      You really need to try it, if nothing else it will broaden your experience so you can compare vi vs. emacs vs. acme. Myself, I watch vim users spend so much time just trying to get their cursors to the appropriate part of the file/line, and then select the appropriate text, that I scratch my head--this is faster? By the time you've figured out that typing "/whatev" should be sufficient to get you to the point you want, I could have grabbed the mouse, simply pointed it to the location I'm interested, and had my hands back on the keyboard already. Don't get me wrong, I also use vi a lot because it's very convenient and very powerful, but there are some things I'm much happier with in Acme.
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wyclif 14y ago

The mousing is what lost me. I love vim because you don't have to deal with the mouse at all.

jff 14y ago
The mousing is what adds a crazy amount of power. You end up with dozens of files on screen, some showing text, some just displayed as the "tag" line. You use the mouse to rapidly jump around them, select text from one, paste into another, etc. The mouse is a pointing device, why not use it to point at things? If I have 3 columns in my acme window (which I usually do) and I'm working in the 3rd file down in the left-most column, it's faster to get to the top file in the right-most column by just grabbing the mouse and clicking than by futzing with key combos.
- wyclif 14y ago
  You make a good case for acme; I'd be willing to try it. But I'm not convinced that in any context grabbing the mouse (with or without chording) is faster than keying, esp. since in vim many of the most important navigational keys are on the home row.
  - jff 14y ago
    You really need to try it, if nothing else it will broaden your experience so you can compare vi vs. emacs vs. acme. Myself, I watch vim users spend so much time just trying to get their cursors to the appropriate part of the file/line, and then select the appropriate text, that I scratch my head--this is faster? By the time you've figured out that typing "/whatev" should be sufficient to get you to the point you want, I could have grabbed the mouse, simply pointed it to the location I'm interested, and had my hands back on the keyboard already. Don't get me wrong, I also use vi a lot because it's very convenient and very powerful, but there are some things I'm much happier with in Acme.
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