Steely <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> No, Warp, sorry, but it does *not*. As I said, it is neither a matter of

> You know the Alt-G stroke, You might use it when typing at the notebook, but
> it would never, never, never come to your mind when sitting at the PC. Why?


> arm that a lot of people think this way (I do, of course).

  Wait a minute. You are trying to say that I, when I'm using WinPOV,
should not press alt-g to render the scene but instead move my hand to
the mouse, move the mouse cursor to the render button and click it?

  Why would I do that since pressing alt-g is so much faster and easier?
Since I'm writing, my hands are already on the keyboard; I don't have
to move my hand at all to press alt-g, I simply press it and that's it.

  If I'm using the mouse for whatever reason at the time I want to render,
then I might click the render button because it's effortless (even though
I might press alt-g with my left hand, whichever is the path of least
resistance). However, if I'm currently writing pov sdl code and want a
quick render, how would the mouse be any better than quickly pressing alt-g?

> Then you change the OS. Great! You have hundred distros, a dozen WMs and two

> it, you simply ask for- and get a punch on the nose! They talk to you abou
> efficiency, but what they mean is - *their* habit ;-) **

  So you call it efficient that you have to grab your mouse, move it to
a location and click instead of simply pressing alt-g?

> > I'm not telling you fall into this category, but I wouldn't
> > be surprised.

> I wouldn't be also. I'm not an expert. :-)

  If you want to promote the use of the mouse, please learn to use the
mouse efficiently.


> from Windows, but now it gets off-topic.

  Surprise surprise, also Windows and the vast majority of Windows programs
support shortcut keys.

  If you are editing a document and you want to make a quick save, which
do you think is easier and more efficient, pressing ctrl-s (the more or
less standard way of saving in most Windows programs) or moving your
hand to the mouse, moving the mouse cursor to the save button and
clicking it?

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                                                          - Warp

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