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: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 02:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5a3184ff-744d-433c-b599-d01738faaca8@i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <0e517d34-da10-4f68-ba9c-bbe9538e37c1@m3g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <410fdd94-a453-4979-b113-aa96e573dc90@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <0db81e1a-87f6-4e82-9620-ddf417604d7e@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <867hxojnqn.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249129429 13526 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2009 12:23:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 12:23:49 +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 14:23:43 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 1MXDck-0005Fu-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXDcj-0003pm-DX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:23:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249119850 1252 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2009 09:44:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:44:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i4g2000prm.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:171433 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:20:36 -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:66623 Archived-At: On Jul 31, 7:01=A0pm, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > 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 > > > =95 The Modernization of Emacs > > =A0http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html > > Hello Xah! To tell truth, in using Emacs, i'm depending on mouse > mostly. So totally i agree with you in your opinion. Thanks for good > writing ..;; > > Sincerely, Thank you. You ane a big supporter. :) Xah