On 01Jul2010 19:00, Andreas Waldenburger <use...@geekmail.invalid> wrote: | On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> | wrote: | > I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad | > so far. | | Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of | typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboard with a pointing stick | (or track point or nav stick or whatever people call it). I'm not quite | sure why they haven't become standard issue on keyboards. Shame, is | what that is.
I like the pointing stick too ("trackpoint" in IBM land), yea, even to the point of specially buying an IBM trackpoint keyboard several years ago for our computer room. I used to strongly favour ThinkPads for the same reason (they are/were decent in other ways too, but it was the trackpoint that was their killer feature for me). I've been pushed to a MacBook of late (changed jobs and death/tiredness of the thinkpads) and am getting by with the touchpad, whcih works fairly well; I used to always turn touchpads off in the past, so maybe my stance has changed slightly - I used to brush them all the time, and many systems doubled up a transient brush as a mouse click:-( The Mac's click-to-focus model may also be helping me here - my thinkpad desktop would be UNIX X11 in focus-follows-mouse mode, which is far more sensitive to trouble from accidental mouse movement. But yes, the trackpoint _greatly_ reduced my need to move my arms to reach for a mouse. Loved it. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "I'm a lawyer." "Honest?" "No, the usual kind." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list