25 Jul
2005
25 Jul
'05
6:14 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:32 , Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> sent:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:17 -0400, Joe Hartley wrote:
I disagree completely. Those who wrote Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, IE should
have used the standard that was already in place. Emacs even pre-dates Mosaic.
Or should they all have used the / from vi for searches :-D All of this really
doesn't matter though, as Joe pointed out it's nice to have standards since there
are so many ;-)
Jan
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:34:41 -0400
Lee Revell rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
True, but the Emacs people should have put a stop to it years ago before
IE and Mozilla and Firefox made Ctrl-F the de facto standard. Nowadays
if you want to integrate with the rest of the modern GUI desktop you'd
better play ball. For example, most apps (Firefox and IE) use
"Ctrl-F" to 'Find in page'.
Except Evolution, which forces you to use "Ctrl-S" to 'Find (Search) in
page', because they have already bound Ctrl-F to 'Forward message'.
This is a MAJOR usability bug; "We didn't feel like doing it the normal
way" is NEVER a "good reason" for usability purposes.
One could argue that since search in Emacs has been ^s for ages, that
those who use ^f are the ones who have broken convention for no good
reason.