The limitations of terminals as an interface

Re:The limitations of terminals as an interface by yycom on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @10:02PM (#973579)

Trite as it is, both text and GUIs have strengths and weaknesses. I don't understand why we can't have both. I'm pissed that I'm forced to use the mouse in Firefox (losing focus bug for many years) and Mac OS (why can't I tab to the button I want to press in a dialog), and I have to dig around the manual to learn the arcana of vim.

IMO the best interface is one where I can point and grunt to do arbitrary things, and while doing so the interface teaches me its own language with prompts and contextual help.

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Re:The limitations of terminals as an interface by blasdel on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @11:43PM (#973732)

Hit ^F7, or System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access > All controls

You know how the default action in a dialog is a solid blue aqua button, and hitting enter presses it? When this preference is turned on, there's an additional blue tab-selection halo that fires its button when you hit spacebar, and it always defaults to the cancel/don't button.

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Re:The limitations of terminals as an interface by azakus on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:24AM (#973897)

There is Vimperator, a plugin that applies vim keybindings.

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