begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:09:35PM -0700: > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 23:27 -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:11:28PM -0700: > > [snip] > > > And in the various IDEs I use, I can select the "Find" menu item, select > > > the function I want (replace vs. find vs. replace all) and send it > > > running. No need to remember anything. I can just get the job done. > > > > Sure, there's lots to remember. > > > > Where the hell is the mouse? Now, where is the damn pointer? And > > now let's troll through the menus looking for the (S)earch, dammit, > > no (S)earch. Maybe (L)ocate? Nope. Perhaps (F)ind? Let's look in the > > (F)ile menu, as I want to FIND things in this file. No joy. Maybe > > the (V)iew menu, as I want to VIEW a selection of things. No joy. > > Perhaps (W)indow, as I want to bring up the FIND WINDOW? Still hates > > me. Okay, let's walk the menu tree.... what is it doing there under > > (E)dit? That's dumb. > > Find is Ctrl+F.
Nah. ^F is "next page". (What, use page down, you say? That's over there by the useless arrow keys. Too far, sez I! I might as well reach for the mouse!) > Tab switches between items in the dialog. Space > selects/toggles an item (radio buttons, checkboxes), Enter is a button > click (Cancel, OK). Not real hard and no mouse required. Also, the Here, have a chair. That whooshing noise must get annoying. :-P > hotkeys are configurable in many of the better IDEs. Indeed. Eclipse and Netbeans both let me use a vi-ish editor now. Huzzah! -- Rejoicing in modal editors since 1992. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
