Design thoughts on my uxn organizer
Two button chording for copy/paste (should be enough and we have no middle mouse button)

And scrolling support (because we have scrolling)
I'll probably make the scrolling kind of 9 style, the higher up in the window, the less lines you scroll
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@penny please please, don't make copy and paste a mouse based operation, copy and paste, moves text, and text processing is done on a which device? Consider Vim's ergonomics of using the home keys for arrows keys, because we're going to over learn them anyway. The corded copy is also a pain from the POV that needing to copy a selection, requires a mouse operation which often results in a unintended movement. Poor unusability. Also Vim's vertically selection is surprisingly ace. <3

@furiousgreencloud @penny damn, that's also how I copy/cut/paste things around.

I guess Penny and I both from acme-type editors?

@neauoire @penny mouse free operation, === accessibility but consistency might be more important for usability. Do you have a chance for both?

@furiousgreencloud @penny well, I decided to implement both in left. I rarely have both hands on the keyboard, so I tend to limit controls to the left-most side of the keyboard when I plan shortcuts.

@furiousgreencloud @neauoire Now one idea would be to eventually add structural regular expressions (instead of line-based), a-la Sam, which gives you the power to do most of what you'd do in any command based editor in text
@neauoire @furiousgreencloud On one hand: nighmarish

On the other hand: thank god I'm trying to port 9 code, of all things
@furiousgreencloud I've read studies and the perceived benefits of staying on the home row are only theoretical. Most of editing text just isn't actually editing text, it's thinking, and when you use text based ones, thinking about commands.

But of course the standard windows commands already implemented in Left will remain, and I'll also be adding the standard UNIX text editing commands.
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