Ergonomics - Rant

Todd Blanchard tblanchard at mac.com
Tue Jul 17 19:32:32 UTC 2007


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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