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Sorry, why would I use a mouse? It's emacs.

• yason 18y ago
  Exactly. I basically like the concept of speedbar but it's just pretty unidiomatic for Emacs in its inefficiency with usage both with a mouse or the keyboard (via C-x 5 o). It's zillion times more effective to navigate using find-file or just by jumping to an existing buffer.
  • jrockway 18y ago
    It's zillion times more effective to navigate using find-file or just by jumping to an existing buffer. Jumping to an existing buffer is fast. For finding files, I like eproject: http://github.com/jrockway/eproject/tree/master http://github.com/jrockway/eproject/tree/master For finding tags, I obviously prefer tags table lookups, with imenu for navigating inside files.
• bprater 18y ago
  If you aren't familiar with Emacs, being able to use a mouse can be a good stop-gap until you are familiar!
• rman666 18y ago
  Maybe he used it so those watching the screen cast could follow along a little better/easier? Duh? I think it's pretty obvious he could be keyboard only if he wanted to (i.e., emacs supports and he clearly has the ability).
• lallysingh 18y ago
  Mice + Text Editors = Better editing. You can move to a specific position easier & faster in a mouse. When you're not in raw typing mode, you're mostly browsing and editing. Mice are useful for that, and the time lost in hopping over to the mouse from the keyboard is well worth it. I can move a mouse very quickly, and I can be very accurate about it. Text cursors are harder to predict, and they jump around (as the page scrolls), making them harder to track than the mouse. What really sold me on the idea was a good amount of time using a macintosh. A properly mouse-friendly environment makes you appreciate how useful the mouse can be. Even back on a decent unix, I still love my select and middle-click to paste. Scroll wheels are also pretty wonderful.