After experiencing many other game editors, I've come to find that FRED's controls are severely lacking compared to things like TESCS (Morrowind's editor) and UnrealEd (you guessed it, the unreal editor)
It would be nice if the controls were re-mapped to use the following (or used an exernal file to store the definitions of the controls)
from TESCS:
Action: Control:
Zoom in & out wheel on wheel mouse
Pan camera middle click (button3) + mouse drag
Rotate around Object shift + mouse drag
move object on z-axis z + mouse drag
move object on xz-axs mouse drag
move object on y-axis y + mouse drag
move object on x-axis x + mouse drag
if someone would do that, it would make my life a lot easier