hello i think one important thing about plan9 chords it's how easy they are to execute and remember, too may commands or complex combinations will be too difficult to use i think.
gabi On 8/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I've spent a lot of time today watching recordings of Engelbart's > 1968 demonstration (http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html), > and I really like the chording pad he has over on the left of his keyboard. > It's the same type of thing that shows up again in the Xerox Alto. > I'm just wondering, as Plan 9 users and developers, what would you do > with such a thing in the environment? Engelbart's device apparently > let you input 31 different chords, which I'd say isn't sufficient to replace > a keyboard but is still pretty impressive; with such a thing, would you > perhaps > bind the chords to perform acme commands, for instance? We've already > got mouse chording, and it's pretty slick; add some more chording in, > say hit the first two keys in order to delete the current frame in acme. > Of course, if we were to get a chord pad that could produce enough > combinations for all alphanumeric characters, it could be used to replace > the keyboard. > > I'd just like to get some opinions, see what you think of chording devices > and what potential utility they could have in Plan 9. > > > > John > >
