Ergonomics - Rant

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Wed Jul 18 08:24:53 UTC 2007


Yes, I remember now, that was very annoying. Also I think I had a few
problems with keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-L to left-indent I think).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Todd
> Blanchard
> Sent: 17 July 2007 8:33 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Ergonomics - Rant
>
>
> Oh, I'll chime in - it doesn't work the way I do and it drives me nuts.
>
> I often type most of a line, realize I need parens around part of it
> at the end of the line, put in the closing paren, then go back to put
> in the opening one - where it then insists on providing a matching
> closing one.  In general, I often end up typing the closing quote/
> paren first, then go back to put in the opening ones.
>
> In other words, I never code left to right - I code like an artist
> builds a picture - starting with a sketch and gradually filling in
> detail jumping around.  eCompletion is a huge impediment when you are
> doing this as you spend more time deleting spurious matching quotes
> and parens than you do just typing stuff.
>
> I'm quite willing to agree that I might not be typical - but that's
> how I work - successive approximations of proper code rather than
> left to right perfection.
>
> -Todd Blanchard
>
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
>
> > 2007/7/16, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>:
> >> Since we do business devlopment we like to keep things a bit more
> >> stable,
> >> though try to keep up with the main release.
> >> Besides, I find the eCompletion stuff a bit problematic (some of
> >> us use it
> >> though).
> >
> > What is problematic for you might be problematic for others too.
> > What is it?
> >
> > --
> > Damien Cassou
> >
>
>




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