Things I am super excited about today include

[maradydd]

Waking up with a solution in mind for a leftover bug from last night's hacking session, getting it implemented within ten minutes of being sufficiently caffeinated to work, and discovering that one of the subsequent items on my TODO is actually as simple as I thought it would be.

Comments

[maradydd]

When I get round to building the chording mouse, that indentation gesture absolutely has to be incorporated into an IDE or editor. I'd do it as an Eclipse plugin if I didn't have such a like-hate relationship with the plugin system. Maybe it could be done in elisp.

[digitalsidhe]

Hey! I just remembered where this gesture comes from! Ever used a manual typewriter? It's the gesture for "carriage return", only with not quite as great a travel distance.

Let me know if you want more explanation.

Glad I finally figured that out; it's been subconsciously bothering me since I typed my earlier comment.

[maradydd]

I can see that! I used to play with my mom's manual typewriter when I was a kid -- it was a "portable", which meant that the whole thing fit into a little suitcase and probably weighed ten kilos. But yes, it had the big carriage return lever.

For indenting code I'd want to be able to indent entire blocks at once, but that should be as simple as selecting a block (click-drag to highlight?) and then "pushing" it over. Maybe with the little wrist-flip that the carriage return uses; that should be fairly easy to capture with an accelerometer.