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alevchuk / vim-clutch

A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim
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Can't you just use a mouse? #6

Open medden opened 12 years ago

medden commented 12 years ago

Would this work with a secondary mouse on the floor? Everyone has one laying around. Sorry for the silly questions and off topic suggestions.

x3ro commented 12 years ago

Given that mouses are hardly designed to be operated by foot, I would imagine that you'd need to replace the mouse every few days or so :)

medden commented 12 years ago

When I said use a mouse, I meant use the button switches from a mouse. Not put an actual mouse on the floor. That would slide around / get kicked too much.

Last night I dug out an old USB gamepad, and used AutoHotkey to map the buttons to Vim Insert mode when in PuTTy, and pagedown in other apps. Works 100% Going to attach it to/in a strong lever arch folder to make the pedal this weekend.
No reason someone couldn't do similar with a secondary mouse.

Cost = Zero | Result = Same | Fail = Really?

christhekeele commented 7 years ago

You forget the cool factor of having a pedal. Trump card.

drummyfish commented 6 years ago

You could use the actual mouse but not the buttons, use left/right movement detection with some threshold to switch the modes, i.e. use sliding instead of pushing.