A Tour of Acme (2012)

Re:A Tour of Acme (2012) by jxy on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:14AM (#23781148)

It is convenient with a pointer or trackpad close to your thumb. Three buttons associated with such pointer or trackpad would be nice, but it would work much better with more buttons. Two or three buttons for each hand would be awesome.

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Re:A Tour of Acme (2012) by bitwize on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:37PM (#23793290)

Sorry, but a trackpad or TrackPoint just makes things worse. It's much harder to precision-highlight a chunk of text with those than with the mouse (or my Logitech TrackMan).

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Re:A Tour of Acme (2012) by yiyus on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:45PM (#23782078)

I used acme for years with a laptop and no external mouse, just using the trackpad (and trackpoint). I never missed more buttons.

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Re:A Tour of Acme (2012) by jxy on Friday July 10, 2020 @12:27PM (#23793181)

So currently control, option, and command are three buttons. I'm wondering if it would be better with the left and right sides functioning differently. You could get many more chording combinations.

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