Re: [RP] mouse control

[Benno]

On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 18:47:38 -0400, fist_187 wrote:
>
>Joe Corneli wrote:
>>I can see how mouse control of ratpoison would work better if you use
>>the GIMP regularly than it would if your interface of choice is
>>fullscreen Emacs.
>
>before i wrote this, i had no idea that the ratpoison community was 
>mostly fullscreen-text-window users.  i was pretty surprised myself when 
>i saw how little the rest of you use the mouse.  personally, i got into 
>rp for the framsets.  its a dream to have windows open with the exact 
>size and in the exact place that i want them.  plus, it can open and 
>organize complex workspaces like GIMP (and all its toolwindows) with 
>just a simple script.  i mean, i drooled so hard that i forgot i even 
>had a keyboard.
>
>>Personally, I have a hard time getting over the IRONY of the idea of
>>mouse control in ratpoison!  
>
>so did i, believe me... it took a week to get the balls to actually 
>suggest it.  sort of reminiscent of bob dylan at the newport folk 
>festival, whipping out the electric guitar.  come on guys, its about the 
>music!
>
>>But what the heck, here is an idea I had that would work well with a
>>scrollwheel mouse and just as well with the keyboard.
>>...
>>With some functionality like this (and similarly for frames) and the
>>ability to bind actions to mouse keys, you would probably be very
>>happy, yes?
>
>absouletely.
>
>the only real extensions to ratpoison that i'm suggesting are the 
>ability to recognize (and bind to) mouse clicks, and the ability to 
>figure out what frame is under the pointer.  then, ratpoison's existing 
>:command set can do the rest.
>

I'm all for it. I work in a lab and other people sometimes use my terminal
when we are debugging things, and none of them are ratpoison users. Having 
a click to focus for framesets would make my life a lot easier.

Benno
(another lurking heretic!)