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- From: rob@zorro.cecer.army.mil (Rob Knauerhase)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: "Reply to *typed* address"
- Message-ID: <C0nHKM.18H@news.cecer.army.mil>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 18:19:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.C0nHKM.18H
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- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
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- In <9301100004.AA10110@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
- >Let's say that your suggestion and mine were seriously being
- >considered for implementation. Assuming insistence on use of
- >INTUITIVE ONE-character commands, and if the upper-case "R" is used
- [...]
- >Seems like we're already running out of command-space that can be
- >used intuitively. (sigh)
- [...]
- >I'd like to add that insistence on 1-char commands does not make it
- >easy to keep the command structure simple for the user, nor does it
- >in any way help to increase intuitiveness.
-
- I'm pleased that elm is as friendly as it is, since that makes it so much
- easier to proselytize as I move from site to site.
-
- However, it's easy to forget that "user friendly" almost always means "expert
- hostile." If we stress "intuition" and the like to the extent of losing
- conciseness, then we lose a lot.
-
- My vote (approporately weighted since I'm not on the development team :) is
- to keep everything as short and sweet as possible, even if it means making
- Joe Appliance-User remember that "z" means "reply and let me type the address."
-
- Rob
- --
- Rob Knauerhase [rob@amber.cecer.army.mil] Office of GRASS Integration
- Construction Engineering Research Labs, US Army Corps of Engineers
- "See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the
- money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it.
- Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs." -- Dave Barry
-