On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, adrians <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess it wasn't clear from my previous post that Xiki is basically Acme. > The thing is that it both of these use the mouse to achieve quite a bit of > their functionality, and, from another thread, I see that Edward is against > mouse use. I'm with Jacob on this, Edward - please don't ignore the users > who like using a mouse. Especially when using the mouse really makes sense. > See the Xiki/Acme to find out why. >
A recent discussion emphasized the fact that it would be a bad idea to *forbid* using the mouse in Leo. By exactly the same reasoning, it is bad to *require* using the mouse in any editor. In fact, the situation for Acme is worse. For many, people, including me, using the mouse is simply not an option: it would destroy my mouse-hand shoulder. It already has, in fact. An editor that *requires* using the mouse should be considered a danger to public health. This is *not* simply a matter of personal preference. So, you either show me how to do everything interesting in Acme with keystrokes, or you write me off the list of potential Acme users, and you resign yourself to the fact that I shall never incorporate those features into Leo. Of course, Leo plugins can use the mouse in any way they like, so this is not an absolute prohibition of those features. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
