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Ryan McGuire wrote:Of course, the best key assignments depend on what programs you use most. Does Eclipse, or whatever your foavorite IDE is, have any non-standard key bindings?
If the mouse doesn't already have dedicated Back and Forwarded for your web browser, I'd suggest those. Alt-LeftArrow and Alt-RightArrow.
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Bear Bibeault wrote:My mouse:
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with gestures replacing any number of buttons. Couldn't be happier with it, and completely frees me from worries about RSI.
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Christophe Verré wrote:A nine-buttons mouse ?? Wow. Are they selling three-headed hammers too ?
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Bear Bibeault wrote:All of them!
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In reality, there are probably only about half a dozen or so that I use regularly.
I stopped using a mouse in 2002 due to RSI, switching to a trackball. When the trackpad came out, it took me about 30 minutes with it to ditch the trackballs.
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Paul Anilprem wrote:
I have no idea how it works so I ask this out of curiosity - as you start having more and more gestures, wouldn't that risk uniqueness of the gestures resulting in wrong translations?
Sort of. There's only one physical click by pressing down on the pad. But a single finger tap is (by default) mapped to left click, and a two-finger tap to right-click. You can also make a tap near a corner the right click. And so on...Half a dozen sounds a lot more than 6
so practically you are using an 6+2 (assuming 2 clicks) = 8 button mouse. Is that correct?
Leaving aside RSI for a moment, do you find it easier (and faster) to do the gestures than the button clicks on a multi button mouse?
Bear Bibeault wrote:
I stopped using a mouse in 2002 due to RSI, switching to a trackball. When the trackpad came out, it took me about 30 minutes with it to ditch the trackballs.
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Maneesh Godbole wrote:I never liked using a mouse. Whenever possible I configure all shortcuts for the keyboard (one of the nicest features of Eclipse). Like Bear, I prefer to use the trackpad. Only difference is that mine is built into my Mac.
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Paul Anilprem wrote:
Of course, for activities that require a lot of typing, both hands on the keyboard is most efficient. But then again, even for such activities, the amount of typing that is required has been gradually reducing because of IDEs. There are so many macros in IDEs that it is impossible to remember keyboard short cuts for all of them. Yet, they are easily and quickly accesible using the mouse.
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:
Paul Anilprem wrote:
Of course, for activities that require a lot of typing, both hands on the keyboard is most efficient. But then again, even for such activities, the amount of typing that is required has been gradually reducing because of IDEs. There are so many macros in IDEs that it is impossible to remember keyboard short cuts for all of them. Yet, they are easily and quickly accesible using the mouse.
Back when I was a youngin, I used to program in Visual C++ 1.5, and the IDE had hotkeys for everything. I would never leave the keyboard. Once, I was looking at a critical problem and my boss decided to help me with it. So, she sat down next to me, and said "You take the keyboard, I'll take the mouse. It will be faster" I said "ok". SO, we are looking at the problem, talking as we go along. She would move her mouse to do something and boom I've already used hotkeys to do it. I just couldn't let her do it. I couldn't, even when I wanted to. It was like the hotkeys were second nature to me.
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Paul Anilprem wrote:
IDEs are way beyond what they were 10 yrs ago. You can't have hotkeys for all the functionality and you can't remember all the hotkeys that exist, IMHO.
Bear Bibeault wrote:My mouse:
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with gestures replacing any number of buttons. Couldn't be happier with it, and completely frees me from worries about RSI.
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Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:That trackpad is sweet. Does it work on XP?
Bear Bibeault wrote:
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:That trackpad is sweet. Does it work on XP?
That particular trackpad is OS X only, I believe.
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Paul Clapham wrote:Okay, but your keyboard doesn't roll around on wheels...
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Bear Bibeault wrote:Here ya go!
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