From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: FYI: usability Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0db81e1a-87f6-4e82-9620-ddf417604d7e@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <0e517d34-da10-4f68-ba9c-bbe9538e37c1@m3g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <410fdd94-a453-4979-b113-aa96e573dc90@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249083140 23422 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 23:32:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:32:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 01 01:32:13 2009 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 4.50) id 1MX1a5-0001Fz-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:32:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX1a5-0008RS-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:32:09 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249072634 22312 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2009 20:37:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171403 comp.emacs:98499 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:30:17 -0400 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66597 Archived-At: On Jul 31, 9:20 am, skyspace wrote: > On Jul 28, 10:25 am, Xah Lee wrote: > > > recently ran into this guy: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_%28usability_consultant%29 > > > interesting. I think emacs could use some advice there. > Indeed nice. > and interesting idea. > How you would start? after reading some of the criticism links, i think that guy is somewhat kooky. His user interface expertise is mostly web only i think ... As for emacs... i think there are few user interface changes emacs could use. Emacs 23, released yesterday, has visual line arrow key movement and highlight text selection, which are great. There are few i think emacs could go after. e.g. have typing or delete key replace selection automatically (delete-selection-mode). This comes naturally when you have text selection on. For those interested, please see =E2=80=A2 The Modernization of Emacs http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84