[tahoe-dev] Giving away the farm (was Re: Google Summer of Code 2010 -- Ideas Needed!)

Jack Lloyd lloyd at randombit.net
Fri Mar 12 19:16:38 PST 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:04:58PM -0500, Kevin Reid wrote:

>  From us Mac/Windows users, this rather sounds like a design flaw in  
> X11 UI conventions.

It perhaps is, but for those of us who have accustomed to it, having
to both swipe with a mouse _and_ hit a set of keys to copy and paste
feels awfully unnatural and inconvenient.

(Which makes me think - what Tahoe really needs is an emacs interface!
If it can do Usenet, why not a distributed filesystem? [*])

-Jack

[*] Only mostly a joke


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