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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs,sci.med.occupational
- Subject: Re: hand injuries from EMACS
- Date: 29 Jan 1993 00:01:59 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- Message-ID: <Jym.28Jan1993.1601@naughty-peahen>
- References: <1993Jan27.181411.9154@smos.com>
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- In-reply-to: david@smos.com's message of 27 Jan 93 18:14:11 GMT
-
- =o= I got into this thread too late to catch the stuff leading
- up to the summary.
-
- > 10) Use a trackball in preference to a mouse.
-
- =o= Absolutely. I've been using Emacs heavily for 13 years
- now, and I've never had a problem with hand/wrist injury until
- I hade to start using a mouse. I now use Emacs for so many
- things specifically to avoid the mouse.
-
- =o= The "sticky keys" idea somehow didn't make it into the
- summary. Note that in most cases you can use an ESCAPE key
- to act as a sticky META. If anyone has hints on implementing
- a sticky CONTROL key, please pass them along.
-
- =o= The "browse mode" idea also didn't make it into the
- summary (though I'd call it "view mode," myself). I think
- Emacs' "view mode" is implemented a little overbearingly,
- but that's easily fixed. Hook it up to the reading of any
- readonly buffer and you've made paging through a lot simpler.
- <_Jym_>
-