> Do you enjoy mouse editing? May be I'm just an old > TTY junkie, but for me mouse is a device that lets me > switch between Xterms with screens(1) in them ;-)
This particular topic has been discussed to death in the past. Forsyth had a particularly lucid summary of a study by Tognazzi showing that mouse editing was faster but that keyboard editing felt faster: it was something like this: the use of keys+commands required a higher level of mental planning to organise the interaction, which apparently obscures the perception of the passage of time--think of being deeply engaged in something and being surprised when you look at a clock-- whereas the use of the mouse was done at a lower, mechanical level that left the mind free for higher things, such as complaining about the mouse. http://9fans.net/archive/2002/04/313
