Wily is a _(TUI) style of *(user interface) for _(Unix)-like _(OS)es inspired by the _(Plan9) Acme _(TUI).

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  <li>_("Wily Homepage" | http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/).</li>
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This is a nice interface, but it forces the user to use the mouse too much, which is very inefficient. See _(WIMP) for why windows and mice are bad. -- _(seaslug)

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I beg to differ. The mouse is a lot faster than navigating with the keyboard. Switching between the two (which is what is slow, but still faster than navigating with the keyboard) isn't that common in Wily: either you're typing new text with the keyboard, or you're copying or moving text around using the mouse. --AnonymousDonor

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Well, you're wrong. period. The mouse is well suited for graphical tasks, but for text, it's slow. On average, a keystroke takes a user .4 seconds to switch his hand from keyboard to mouse and vice versa, and 1.1 seconds to point to a position on the display. These numbers vary on the user and what is being pointed to, but with a text interface like wily, it's likely that the second number is larger because the user is pointing at something so small. In contrast, it takes .2 seconds to tap a key. I understand that it may seem easier to seek to text using a mouse, but try emacs' incremental search to seek to text and you'll be hooked, even though it's modal. Overall, the keyboard is <u>much</u> faster than the mouse. If you don't reply to this argument in a few days I'm going to remove your reply and mine from this page. -- _(seaslug)