From: wa95003@black.ox.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh) Subject: Re: Let's write a wordprocessor. Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 13:42:43 GMT
In article <C7EHr8.HDn@ms.uky.edu> kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy) writes:
>All,
>
> I had some thoughts about this word processor. I was thinking
> of why people like to use wusiwig word processors and why some dont..
> People who like these programs love their ease to use. Their
> ability to move and chage text with only a few flicks of a mouse
> or cursor movements. But then I thought of a why I dont like them.
> Its because I can can delete a line with two key strokes. In most
> wusiwig editors, deleting a line envolves moving the pointing
> device from the begining of the line to the end (or 3 clicks on
> some) then hitting backspace. In this case the keystrokes were
> doubled. When I have 20 mins left to complete a paper for class
> I find it frustrating to do the extra work to get my job done.
But the point is that you still have the keyboard there as well as
the mouse. Now I prefer the emacs keystrokes to delete a line to the
ones I use in MS Word for Windows, but that's a nuance of Word for
Windows, not of WYSIWYG editors.
Also, you seem to be confusing the concepts of "WSYIWYG", and "mouse
driven". I can happily imagine a WYSIWYG editor without mouse support.
I have used MS Word extensively when my mouse was broken :-)
Fletch