Re: XYWIN

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

I find that for a good deal of marking text, dragging the mouse (actually
trackball) is faster than moving the cursor, since the former can actually move
the cursor diagonally, and directly from menu (in the rare times I use it) to
text. It is certainly the fastest way to move the cursor across swaths of
text. I use a large trackball, which means my hand finds it without groping
when I want it. On the other hand, I agree with you that the keyboard with
F-keys on the left (put in place by the
Demiurogos, as Plato's Timaeus shows beyond a doubt) is faster for practically
everything else, especially when customized to fix run-on sentences etc. with a
single keystroke.

-- Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325