XYWIN
Harmon Seaver (hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu)
Sat, 16 Jul 1994 20:04:24 -0400
If you can remove all vestiges of the buttons and icons on the screen,
what then is left to make it better than Xy4, aside from being optimized
for Windoz, I mean? Does it run faster under Windoz than Xy4? Even having
a few buttons on the side as you described doesn't interest me -- I almost
never use a mouse in Xy4, with the except of when I'm writing things like
this e-mail message and then I'm doing it in a OS/2 dos window session,
not my usual full-screen mode, and so I sometimes use the mouse to paste
some text into the XY4 screen. Otherwise, I'd much rather use the keys
to do all that stuff. Much faster to flick a finger onto ^F7 for a spell
check, or shift F7 for thesaurus, etc. Taking one's hands off the key
board to reach for a mouse when writing is counter productive. Even tho
I have a Logitech trackball made for laptops attached to the right end of
my keyboard. And, if you have a decent keyboard, with all 12 of the F keys
vertical on the left end of the keyboard, as God, in his infinite wisdom,
blessed be He, decreed they should be, then it's exceedingly fast to do
keystrokes.
Also, I must admit that I don't quite understand what the mouse was
or wasn't doing in the other posts -- I haven't seen that, but perhaps
that's because I use OS/2 and don't have that problem. Or maybe just
because I don't use a mouse enough within XY4 (and I've never used it with
XY 3) to have experienced it.
Harmon Seaver
hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu
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