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Re: a curse on sloppyfocus and focusfollowsmouse

Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.net)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:42:08 -0800 (PST)

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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Brian Bray wrote:

> You can switch back and forth between the two applications without
> moving your hands off the keyboard. Fast and easy...

It's not as fast and easy as never switching at all. Monitoring
the output of a log file, for example, and typing in commands based
on what you see is a pain if you have to keep flipping between
windows.

> We should hang our heads in shame that a HOWTO on the delete and
> backspace keys is necessary.

Yeah, I'll agree with that one!

cjs

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