Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan.

Re:Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan. by bootload on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:48AM (#36297)

"... which I want for personal use: a subset/bastardization of the editor part of Jef Raskin's Humane Environment (AKA Archy) ..."

added an article you are probably familiar with just the other day ~ http://rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Core_Principles

Archys core principles are ...

 - data is sacred, never lose your work
 - train of thought is sacred
 - content & commands primal
 - never do more work than necessary

"... I did a couple prototypes in the past and I know I like it. I don't like Archy itself because of its compromise of using alt keys for leaping; I got myself a thinkpad-like keyboard with buttons under the space bar for this purpose ..."

How about adding mouse support?

Think it was in a Woz podcast I heard woz saying Raskin had a thing against mice and liked keyboards better (but everywhere I search I see the contrary - suggested 3 button mouse for mac etc ~ http://tinyurl.com/2lespx )

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Re:Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan. by bootload on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @05:55AM (#36309)

"... Jef did not want to incorporate what became the two most definitive aspects of Macintosh technology - the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and the mouse pointing device. Jef preferred the 6809, a cheaper but weaker processor which only had 16 bits of address space and would have been obsolete in just a year or two, since it couldn't address more than 64Kbytes. He was dead set against the mouse as well, preferring dedicated meta-keys to do the pointing ..."

ahaa ... here's that pesky Raskin article ~ http://tinyurl.com/5e22z So he was against the mouse & loved those keystrokes. As for the source? It's first hand from Mr Mac himself, Andy Hertzfeld on http://folklore.org

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Re:Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan. by euccastro on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @12:25PM (#36366)

Thanks for the pointers. I plan to use this as a text editor/hacking environment, and I don't use, nor want to use, the mouse for that.

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Re:Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan. by bootload on Sunday July 29, 2007 @08:27PM (#37526)

"... Thanks for the pointers. I plan to use this as a text editor/hacking environment, and I don't use, nor want to use, the mouse for that ..."

On editors and hacking and writing unless you build in some sort of functionality to both syntax highlighting and parsers that recognise various languages, text formats you might have to cut+paste/drag & drop which easiest with a mouse. Don't discount using other editor applications for editing, validating.

At least that's what I've found.

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