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Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by s_brady » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 11:43 AM UTC

Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs
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Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by timonoko » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 12:47 PM UTC

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by messe » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 12:52 PM UTC

Based on the title I hoped this was going to be emacs with acme-style mouse chording.

[1]: http://acme.cat-v.org/

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by lbj » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 12:59 PM UTC

Mouse-driven Emacs is like a feet-driven car. Fred would have loved to see this.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by kleiba » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 12:59 PM UTC

Kinda strange.

Emacs is so inherently keyboard-focused that I fail to see the point of this... nor the need for it?!

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by trey-jones » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #5

Kinda strange. Emacs is so inherently keyboard-focused that I fail to see the point of this... nor the need for it?!

Yeah, the main reason I started using Emacs was to try and eliminate (or reduce, I suppose) mouse usage.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by hprotagonist » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

timonoko wrote: post #2

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

o-org-mode?

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by thom » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #5

Kinda strange. Emacs is so inherently keyboard-focused that I fail to see the point of this... nor the need for it?!

I'm not sure this is true. Emacs is fundamentally command driven - everything is a command, and can be invoked, edited or replaced the same way. What triggers those is obviously key bindings for a lot of people but it's not really what makes Emacs powerful or extensible. People have diverse needs when it comes to wanting to interact with a computer, and it's great that Emacs's flexibility allows them to.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by mrspeaker » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #5

Kinda strange. Emacs is so inherently keyboard-focused that I fail to see the point of this... nor the need for it?!

I use Emacs as my primary... everything. But I totally see the point and need for mouse-driven functionality. Emacs only works if you have two functioning arms with hands on them. Put a coffee, a sandwich, a cat, a kid, a beer... in one of your hands, and Emacs is unusable. If my cat wants some attention, I can't keep typin' stuff.

Though, not sure why the mouse-driven features are also wrapped up making shortcuts match VS-Code etc. That makes it a lot less useful.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by skocznymroczny » Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 1:07 PM UTC

timonoko wrote: post #2

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

So like LyX?