Re: [usability] mouse-1 for performing actions?

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:

    I don't have mouse-2 on my laptop.  I can use all GNOME & KDE
    applications just fine, but Emacs is almost unusable until I plug
    in an external mouse.

I am very confused:  how can Emacs be `almost unusable' without an
external mouse?  What I am trying to get at is, what user-model are
you presuming? 

Clearly, a user-model that always presumes access to a 3 button mouse
produces a quite different user interface requirements than a
user-model that presumes access to a 3 button mouse only some of the
time.

(Similarly, a user-model that presumes the user is always going to
remain a novice leads to a different user interface than a user-model
that presumes the user starts as a novice but can learn.)

(You don't need a mouse for Emacs.  Indeed, about a half hour ago, I
was connected, via an ssh hop to a machine and then from there via
telnet, through a slow connection (perhaps 1200 baud; traceroute
indicated some sort of trouble in Newark, NJ) to a third machine,
using Emacs without a mouse.)

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