As an amateur musician, I think he should have gone all the way:
Vim clutch
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Re: Vim clutch
#42This is brilliant! I only use i part of the time, however; I, a, A, o, and O are each used substantially.
Thought this myself... BUT it could work with three pedals (i, a and o) with the shift key. Brilliant idea though, I would pay up to $50 for one of these.
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#43Glad to see other people experimenting with this kind of setup. I've known a few people to use one of these [1] for Emacs (for Ctrl & Meta), and I finally picked one up a while back. My setup has one pedal bound to Escape for Vim, and the other two switchable using F keys and some xbindkeys magic. By default, they're "switch WM workspace" (sort of like Alt-Tab) and "switch window focus within a workspace" in Awesome…
More evidence emacs is more advanced than vi - we emacs users have been thinking we need foot pedals for years!
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you don't have to hit escape or jj to exit out. You just let your foot off the pedal. No chance of accidentally being in edit mode or not.
I doubt that foot / finger coordination is good enough to get the timing right without losing some keystrokes.
Then it is a good way to train your foot / finger coordination.
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#45Why isn't there a clutch for computer games (except car driving games)? A clutch can be used for mod switching; such as running mode, stealth mode or reloading guns.
Turns out if you have a button to do the same thing, once the user enters immersion the actual control becomes less important. Where alternate hardware is useful is for more analog controls that a joystick/mouse can't easily simulate.
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#46Excellent! Foot/extremities-that-aren't-finger controllers are a space that is ripe for innovation.
Similar ideas came up quite a few times in the recent MaKey MaKey design competition:
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=211.msg310#...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=53.msg65#ms...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=285.msg412#...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=180.msg250#...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=292.msg441#...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=173.msg239#...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=338.msg568#...
http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=346.msg576#...
Re: Vim clutch
#47Very nice. But why put something like this on GitHub?!!
I myself am thinking of hosting all my school files next semester in Github. Its free, and fast, and, well, Git.
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#48Very cool. I'd be a little afraid to get addicted and not be able to edit effectively away from my pedal though.
This is the precise reason I didn't hack up an interface for my midi pedal yesterday when I had this idea myself.
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#49In 1992 research was done that proved that modes can be made less confusing with feedback. Visual feedback is more easily ignored than audio feedback, but the best is kinesthetic, or physical feedback. Jef Raskin championed the use of "quasimodes", which are modes that are consciously maintained by the user. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_%28computer_interface%29#...
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#50Jef Raskin championed this style of interface where you only enter modes while performing an action, he called them quasimodes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Quasi...
He never mentioned pedals though, it's a really clever approach.