Reddit mentions of HP Optical 3 Button Mouse,USB,Accessory

It extends the paradigm Oberon was built around by treating all text as editable (even in the menu bar, so searching becomes typing after the Look entry in the bar) and uses mouse chording (yes, I use a three button mouse, but you can emulate the middle mouse button with Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click). So you need to actively use your mouse along with the keyboard, it's pretty quick that way, and selecting it with different combinations of mouse buttons will let you pass it down an IPC file server called Plumber where you have match rules to decide what to do with that text and if you want to execute something. You can use it as your file manager, shell, editor, anything. So for instance, my personal setup has a rule to drop me to the line of the file in my project that causes a compilation error, one to quickly paste the whole thing to some online service, one to drop me to the dictionary when I'm reading files from some directory I keep books in, since Plumber is usable everywhere else I can hook it up with other programs with some patching of code, etc (since Acme won't just pass the text to Plumber, it can also pass user defined attributes, along with the default current working directory, executable name, etc).

The possibilities are endless, it's just an extension of pipes but for the GUI, and with more context. I'm looking to sit down someday and possibly write a rio clone that uses Wayland, and then port acme over and fix some of the usability issues that irritate me, but being motivated enough at this age is a rather hard thing to do ;).

This is what it looks like roughly, http://plhk.ru/trash/plan9.png

It is a shame that the world keeps running after Windows and MacOS and the desktop metaphors they popularized which are poor logically (ever wondered why dropping folders to the trash deletes them but draggin files to your printer icon won't print them? =)), while the real productivity boost is in integrating with the system like Plan 9 did, and to make most of it. It is pointless imitation at this point from the major "Free desktop" projects. Yeah, they really are free as in freedom but not really free in thought, unfetter your ideas people. Innovate, rather than copying stuff you see is popular amongst the crowd that already has not much to give back to things it consumes.

BTW, here's a nice working 3 button mouse that I use,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-Mouse-Optical-Button-Wired/dp/B0002Y5LZ8

Russ summarises pretty acme well here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

Not aiming to hijack the discussion about this VS extension, but the Acme text editor and its mouse chording is awesome for microcontroller forths without built-in tab completion or prompt history. All I have to do is highlight code from the scrollback with the middle mouse button and Acme will send it to the prompt below and run it. This way you can also execute any substrings of the scrollback or middle click single words that you are too lazy to type out.

You'll want to configure acme from plan9ports with a decent font and some handy plumbing rules according to your needs but it's worth the effort.

https://github.com/evbogdanov/acme
http://www.mostlymaths.net/search/label/acme

I have a plumbing rule for register addresses so I can right mouse button highlight the high nybles of an address and get a list of all the registers under that base address in a new pane.

type is text
data matches '0x([0-9A-Fa-f]+)'
plumb start rc -c 'grep -n '$1' '*' | plumb -i -d edit -a ''action=showdata filename=0x'$1''''

The downside is you'll need a 3-button mouse and not one with a scroll wheel. I'm using this one.

I use a HP 3 button optical mouse like this one here. I us it together with a wheel mouse attached to a 2 port mini usb hub like this one here. I get wheel button fatigue from clicking in 3d apps all day.

This is literally what I use. Simple as hell. Scroll wheels just make a bunch of model navigation stuff uncomfortable, to me.

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Optical-Button-Mouse-accessory/dp/B0002Y5LZ8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1473365045&sr=8-2&keywords=3+button+mouse

I'm assuming you're talking about that the ring finger rests on? If yes, this is the only thing I could find-
https://www.amazon.com/HP-Optical-Button-Mouse-accessory/dp/B0002Y5LZ8