[Haskell-cafe] Re: Editor

apfelmus apfelmus at quantentunnel.de
Tue May 22 04:19:52 EDT 2007


Jules Bean wrote:
> Michael T. Richter wrote:
>>    1. A real GUI environment that takes into account some of the HID
>>       advances made in the past 30 years.  (Emacs and Vim don't count,
>>       in other words.)
> 
> Both emacs and vim take into account many of the HID advances made in
> the past 30 years.

I can't know whether that's the case, but the fact that virtually all
commands are invoked with the keyboard clashes with HID research reported at

   http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

It adresses the question whether selecting commands in menus with the
mouse or accessing them via keyboard shortcuts is faster. The answer is:

 "* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than
    mousing.
  * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than
    keyboarding."

Regards,
apfelmus



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