26 Jul
2005
26 Jul
'05
7:36 a.m.
Last Monday 25 July 2005 22:15, Kevin Cosgrove was like:
On 25 July 2005 at 15:46, Ben Loftis
<ben(a)glw.com> wrote:
Thanks Kevin. All keybindings have to be learned. I can't use vi without
constant reference to the manual. I dare say the same would be true of emacs.
I dislike them both and use nedit for everything, simply because it works
much more like a Windows based editor, so I had to relearn less in order to
get typing when I first migrated. It's nothing to do with intuitabilty either
- old habits die hard.
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
Most professional audio gear is like a bicycle.
A bike is
certainly not intuitive to a first time user, but once you
learn how to balance, steer, etc, you can get around faster
than someone on foot. This has sometimes been described as
"intuitable" rather than intuitive.
Or, "discoverable" versus "usable".
Word is easy to discover for easy things to do. 'vi' is
*much* faster, if my 'vi' speed versus the 'Word' speed of my
compatriots is any gauge. Pull-down menus are "intuitive", where
as hot-keys are not. But, hot-keys get the work done quickly
once they're known. Pull-down menus which list their hot-key
shortcuts in the menu are quite nice for me. The Opera web
browser is one example of this.