On 7/7/06, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/7/06, Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> David Leimbach wrote:
> > LOL, totally knew he'd show up if I said that :-)
> >
> > Hi Rob, don't worry I was kidding.
> >
>
> yeah, but, like it or not folks, people want it, so I went ahead and did
> it.
>
> It's not called smacme for nothing.
>
> ron
>
I was only kidding about the snarf buffer stuff... :-) I have often
needed to navigate up or down one line at a time and didn't want to
grab the mouse to do so.
It's a text editor, I'm going to type "eventually", why move my hand
really far away from the place where I do that to move up or down one
line?
I agree. This is an annoyance for me. I also wish rc would get *some*
kind of history; if I want to re-run troff after making a change to a
file, it's faster to type "!!" than to select the previous command,
snarfing, pasting, clicking at the end of the line, and hitting enter.
The same argument holds for why pointing and clicking the mouse 30
lines down is faster than hitting down 30 times so I don't see that as
a violation of the spirit of what Acme is supposed to be very good at.
The original author may disagree with me.
The snarf comment was just an attempt to get "smacked" ;-). The fact
that I have mouse chording alone means that this feature would have
been duplicate and probably not as good as what's already there.
I wouldn't mind a shortcut to paste. When snarfing, the hand is
already on the mouse anyway, but if I want to paste multiple times
over time, I'd like to do it with hands on the keyboard.
Dave
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