Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> 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.