Excellent flight simulator, but no equipment to simulate the cockpit - Was: How to disable all "keyboard shortcuts"

[Bret Busby]

On 14/8/22 03:24, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 14/8/22 01:59, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 01:06 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 13/8/22 23:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just imagine a plane in emergency and there would be the need to pilot
>>>> the plane by a vi/m or emacs alike user interface.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Whilst it is a digression, I am not sure - it is some years since I
>>> played with it, but, from memory, a free flight simulator that I played
>>> with, operated something like that, I think. I think it might have been
>>> Flightgear - I am not sure - it was a while ago. It was key
>>> combinations, or, key presses, to do things, not ever having had a 
>>> joystick.
>>
>> Yes, you can use even a good flight simulator with the input devices an
>> averaged desktop computer provides. Instead of appropriate controls to
>> fly a pane you have to use freakish keyboard shortcuts. This is just a
>> workaround for the missing controls required to pilot a plane.
>>
>> If you use Nano or even better a GUI editor like Xed or Pluma or even an
>> modern IDE, there's no need for special controls. Maybe vi/m and emacs
>> are comfortable to use with the controls needed to pilot a plane. If so,
>> I still consider the user interface design of vi/m and emacs as
>> absolutely outdated.
>>
> 
> Depending on what I am editing, I use gedit (or, it is now renamed to 
> Text Editor) - which I use for editing html for my web sites, and for 
> other things that are not system things needing root privileges.
> 
> If I am editing files that need root privileges, such as 
> /etc/apt/sources.list, and, the files in sources.list.d, I use sudo vi, 
> with the very basic vi stuff; i for insert, a for append, <ESC> for 
> exiting a mode such as insert mode, x for deleting a character, and, 
> <SHIFT><Z><Z> for exit and save. When I first learnt some UNIX, about 30 
> years ago, I was a bit more proficient (but, not proficient) with using 
> vi, and, now, I use only the very basic stuff.
> 

When I deal with my email after I have downloaded it,and, am using 
(al)pine, I cannot remember whether the editor that uses, is nano or 
pico. But, I use only the basic functionality, and <CTRL><k> and 
<CTRL><u> . I can also use gedit to compose,and,copy and paste the text 
into alpine (and, to the command line at the shell level).

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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