two more crushing blows to the mouse industry this weekend: first off, the beautiful X window manager / general UI tool ion, which has such cool things as minibuffers, file completion, full keyboard operation, and a purely frame-based tile system. actually seems more useful than larswm, which is surprising. it's like a little fragment of the parts you use most from emacs, shaved off and put in a window manager.

secondly: I wrote a new emacs mode called quads, which is a quadtree navigation assistant. it solves (or seems to solve) the problem of relocating the cursor to an arbitrary position in a window. you eyeball the position you want to go, hit the magic key, and it lights up 4 wedge-shaped regions overlaid on the text in the current window. above, below, to the left, and to the right. you cursor in the direction of the region containing the spot you want to go, it recenters the wedges in the middle of that wedge. if you hit space, ctrl-g or bottom out of the quadtree it drops you back into normal navigation. this way you can move to any spot in a typical editor buffer in 5 or 6 keystrokes, which is roughly as fast as mousing.

also increasingly satisfied with konqueror as primary browser. it's like a small, fast, working version of nautilus+mozilla.