From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:13:14 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87d3uu9eud.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20100707064305.GF31621@groll.co.za> <20100707080139.GA18906@groll.co.za> <9dc07ed9-f6f1-4ac5-949a-5b97368cc32a@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87mxu22rbc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291845940 18724 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:05:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:05:40 +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 23:05:36 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 1PQS8j-0004i0-Hb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:05:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48377 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQS8h-0003CK-It for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:05:31 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.netcologne.de!ramfeed1.netcologne.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tNHXwMTC9kq5wxPSOpkdHeVBr9I= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jul 2010 18:13:34 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: f786e3e7.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=F[2IRmAKDSU@@RW1FjIB5SMcF=Q^Z^V3X4Fo<]lROoRQ8kFhTn0Eon^1_LiI6ENVa]3>5MOK`al0oRZi1k2\PEJGeQiXOBgmNJ_bW Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179692 comp.emacs:100180 comp.lang.lisp:290219 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76101 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" writes: > The point is that David is right about criticizing M$' 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. -- David Kastrup