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You answered most of the question I came here to ask. How about chording though? I'm under the impression that there are actions that are triggered by all thr
by EdwardCoffin 14y ago
You answered most of the question I came here to ask. How about chording though? I'm under the impression that there are actions that are triggered by all three mouse buttons simultaneously.
I'm hoping to give acme a serious try (I have it installed), but I need to be sure I won't have to start using a three button mouse rather than whatever is provided by my system.
- rsc 14y agoI think you will have an easier time learning the environment if you use a 3-button mouse, but it's not a requirement. I spend some entire days in acme on a MacBook Air, and the keyboard modifiers and %-C, %-V, %-X keyboard shortcuts on the Mac work well for me.
- acuozzo 14y agoAgreed, as acme makes much better sense when you're equipped with a 3-button mouse. For anyone interested: You may want to purchase an HP DY651A. It's an affordable 3-button optical USB mouse (and, yes, it's a real 3-button one). http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.asp?sku=2545791 http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.asp?sku=2545791
- jlouis 14y agoAs Russ (rsc) says, it is not a requirement, but it is easier in my opinion. There are two common operation classes: sweeping while a button is held down and chording invocation. Sweeping is easy, as soon as you learn to hold down a key while sweeping. Chording is mostly used - except for one specific chord which isn't extremely common to use - for Cut/Copy/Paste. And you already have that on the Cmd-bindings, so they are not that needed.