From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Byung-Hee HWANG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: FYI: usability Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:01:52 +0900 Organization: DJ Message-ID: <867hxojnqn.fsf@betla.izb.knu.ac.kr> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249094453 10339 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2009 02:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 02:40:53 +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 04:40:45 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 1MX4WZ-0002lm-Rj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX4WZ-0001mG-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:40:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Url: http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CQ5GVXzcOwTb1Yzfk+vie9Md2C0= Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.230.157.159 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=2iZY]R?jIl2\@oMK^dR\Dk8==DVP1ThD_JD^O0Z Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171420 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:66605 Archived-At: 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 > > • The Modernization of Emacs > http://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, -- "Those lousy bastards, they don't respect anything." -- Santino Corleone, "Chapter 1", page 18