Re: Microsoft Introduces New Command-Line Text Editor

On Wed, 21 May 2025 01:30:55 -0600, Jeff Barnett wrote:

The keyboards that came that came with the Lisp machines had cap, ctrl,
meta, hyper, and maybe one other such key; the mouse had three buttons
and you could chord with both hands. The mouse "knew" the types you were
pointing at and the menus adjust to sensible options for the type of
data of the object represented by what the mouse was on. After
overcoming disbelief that all this was working reasonably quickly and
properly, it was a real joy. And, by the way, the keys I mentioned above
were so arranged that it was not hard to reach virtually any chord.

Chuck Moore of FORTH fame devised a one handed keyboard that you played
like an ocarina. Luckily that never caught on.