Re: Oberon/Acme/etc. mouse heavy interfaces [Was: Re: Life, universe, and ION3]

On 2007-10-13, Roy Lanek <lanek-tnsfOxNVUhtWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice would be somethings like *tools* ... as in Oberon^1.
>
> Reference is: The Oberon System^2
>
>      [C]ommands are entered into a text *viewer* and then
>      executed with the mouse. It is therefore quite natural to
			 ^^^^^
>      prepare a set of frequently used commands in a text which is
>      stored on disk. Such a text is called a *tool*. [Commands
>      may be embedded anywhere in a text.]

This is the Acme/P9 interface that I referred to in another post, 
and it's just utter and total crap on a typical horizontal-controls-
and-vertical-screen computer, but might be usable on a touch screen
tablet. The "marketing" for this kind of interfaces is from the 
pre-tab-completion era! From the pre-historical era! (Pun intended.)
I've hit a command query key, typed a couple of letters of the 
command and hit <tab> faster than moving the hand to the mouse! 
Not to even speak of pixel-hunting text with the pantograph that
the mouse is.

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