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Re: Apologia for bzr
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Apologia for bzr |
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Sat, 04 Jan 2014 20:00:03 +0100 |
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Tom <address@hidden> writes:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> It is very different in one way. An editor is a tool you start
>> with. It should be convenient for everyone. Beginners may face
>> a high complexity and different terms (and keyboard shortcuts)
>> for rather familiar commands makes it much more difficult.The
>> difference might seem small, but since it raises complexity for
>> beginners it waists time for them.
>
> Kill/yank comes to mind as obvious example. The copy/cut/paste
> terminology is pretty much standard, so the various kill/yank
> operations (kill-region, copy-region-as-kill, etc.) should
> be mapped to these terms.
The problem I see with that is that the terms are mnemonics for the
keybindings: the kill bindings contain "k", the yank bindings "y".
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Apologia for bzr, (continued)
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Toby Cubitt, 2014/01/03
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Tom, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/04
- Apologia for CUA mode, Christophe Poncy, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for CUA mode, Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/04
- CUA mode???, Joshua Judson Rosen, 2014/01/04
- Re: CUA mode???, Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/04
- Re: CUA mode???, Xue Fuqiao, 2014/01/05
- Re: CUA mode???, Lennart Borgman, 2014/01/05
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Tom, 2014/01/04
- Apologia for CUA mode (was: Apologia for bzr), Christophe Poncy, 2014/01/04
- Re: Apologia for bzr, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/01/05