On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 11/09/2009 6:53 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
On 11-Sep-09 10:41:21, Jim Lemon wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 05:15 PM, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> > ...
> > | > and in previous versions, you could always do M-x cua-mode for
> > | > the same effect. Talk about a well-hidden function mostly
> > | > directed
> > | > at beginners ...
> >
> > Perhaps the thinking was that by the time they find it, they'll
> > already have noticed that they can cut/copy and paste using only the
> > mouse buttons and won't be bothered with such inefficient methods.
> >
> > Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't. :-)
> >
> Well, okay, let's look at it from the viewpoint of learning theory. We
> expect that if someone has learned a skill, they will prefer to engage
> in other behaviors where they can successfully use that skill. Upon
> this easily understood foundation rest the fortunes of many. Thus two of
> those entities, let us call them A and M for the purposes of
> discussion, spend a great deal of time and effort attempting to
> differentiate their
> interfaces from each other so that having trained their users, those
> users will be reluctant to switch to the competitor. However, they must
> remain similar enough so that the switch from the competitor is not
> impossible. Such is the dispiriting triumph of form over substance in
> interface design. Both have yet to abandon such atavists as myself who
> prefer to type rather than fiddle with a pointing device, though they
> try hard to convert us. A somewhat smaller organization that I will
> label G seems to have decided that it can build a user base by sticking
> to the arcane typoglyphics of the VT-100 era and enticing the largely
> amoral digirati with moral suasion. Now that's madness.
>
> Jim
Once again, I cannot resist citing the immortal quote (from Charles
Curran, of the UK Unix Users Group):
"I can touch-type, but I can't touch-mouse"
That's a strange disability. It took me several months to learn to
touch-type (and years later I'm still not very good at the top-row numbers or
the special symbols on them), but I memorized the location of the two buttons
on my mouse in no time at all.
Duncan Murdoch
Ahh, just Ted's point--mice have three buttons (unless they are
connected to Apples).
Clint
Originally posted on Wed Nov 17 13:48:14 2004, in the context of an
extended discussion (still relevant to the present thread):
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/41560.html
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
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