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Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search
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Ilya Zakharevich |
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Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:18:14 -0000 |
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On 2010-07-08, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> their documents by mostly visual manipulation of their text without
> having a clue about underlying structures like references, style sheets
> and so on. The result is unmaintainable crap, but they would not know
> better. Word tries keeping up in this battle of computer illiteracy by
> doing things like enumerations, styles and so on "automagically",
> second-guessing the user, and the user tries second-guessing Word in
> order to get around that.
I suspect that you wanted to say that you find this situation
disagreeable. Just think about that: would this opinion of yours
persist if Word had a clearly documented way to switch off guessing
(completely, and/or per particular heuristics)?
> It is an escalation of mutual cluelessness.
Partially, this is true. But only at a small part (like M$'s
stupidity in not making the guessing optional). The major thing which
you are missing is that the escalation also happens in `having people
get what they wanted in the first place' (usually "getting the work
done"). (Although users-conditioning-via-designer's-cluelessness also
takes place - hmm, this is just another way to state the same as you did...)
> The more userfriendly a piece of software becomes, the more this
> becomes a problem for _competent_ people willing to learn about
> their tool.
BS. There is no direct connection.
> I have no idea what to do to make people lean towards looking at the
> documentation.
Just don't. (Addressed in another message in this thread.)
Yours,
Ilya
- Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search, Stefan Kamphausen, 2010/12/08
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- Re: Fixing antediluvianisms in Emacs' UI, Ilya Zakharevich, 2010/12/08
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- Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search, Xah Lee, 2010/12/08
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- Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
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- Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search, Jeongtae Roh, 2010/12/09
Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search, Uday S Reddy, 2010/12/08