From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:58:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20100707064305.GF31621@groll.co.za> <20100707080139.GA18906@groll.co.za> <9dc07ed9-f6f1-4ac5-949a-5b97368cc32a@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87mxu22rbc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d3uu9eud.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291846303 20533 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:11:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:11:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 23:11:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSEI-0005pR-AK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:11:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSDt-0005rV-9b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:10:53 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:58:24 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp In-Reply-To: <87d3uu9eud.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.133.62 Original-X-Trace: sv3-75Pn+DcyYG3bShQWgCtiyS/VEfbNzMqrlFcHZSUbdLjMzGwfk53vIGf09TNTEXEAwYmUcSjZVhX5pht!Fzch2IAddoa0tcy2P+EmLdu+tBo9Oc3diSedKz+dQFq/L/urEqOJKwoU6Yq27yoL/18DhiDJ+ZGP!1c/lp4kIoin9iis7mMKvPmEvAB5kYw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179697 comp.emacs:100183 comp.lang.lisp:290222 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-12-22 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76111 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "B. T. Raven" writes: > >> The point is that David is right about criticizing M$' word processor >> design philosophy > > I was not really criticizing it, merely pointing out the consequences of > an interface focused on shallow contact. If you don't manage to keep > the corresponding problem space as shallow as the interface (and I don't > think that this is, in every case, impossible), then you get a conflict > of interest that get increasingly harder to solve. > > I think that at one time at least Apple was renowned for restructuring > the problem space complexity to match their user interfaces, by no means > a trivial feat. > Point taken. I never knew much about Word and, since I began using OpenOffice to open doc files, I know even less. The animated paper clip sent out bad vibes from the getgo.