From: Andy Piper <andyp@bea.com>
Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:55:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9popq$3oh$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjk7r3zzk4.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk>
At 01:40 PM 4/19/02 +0200, Per Abrahamsen wrote:
>Dialog boxes are so 1980's.
Well so is Windows, but the advantage is that everyone knows how it works -
you can get up to speed quickly on an application because everything works
the way you expect. I'm not saying dialog boxes aren't clumsy, inefficient
etc, etc - but for a bunch of users its what they expect. So it seems to me
the principle of least surprise applies here.
Not that your points about making the minibuffer more accessible aren't
good ones. I think the minibuffer is one of emacs' greatest strengths.
amdu
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2002-04-19 11:40 ` The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Per Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <rjk7r3zzk4.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk>
2002-04-19 16:27 ` Brady Montz
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2002-04-19 19:01 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-20 17:28 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <200204201728.g3KHSDW01513@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-04-20 21:45 ` Andy Piper
2002-04-21 15:54 ` William M. Perry
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2002-04-19 20:28 ` Andy Piper
[not found] ` <4.3.2.7.2.20020419132421.00bfa9d0@san-francisco.beasys.com>
2002-04-19 20:39 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-20 23:53 ` William M. Perry
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2002-04-19 17:00 ` Andy Piper
2002-04-20 11:03 ` Terje Bless
2002-04-20 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
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2002-04-21 2:06 ` Brady Montz
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2002-04-21 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-21 7:35 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-21 15:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2002-04-21 17:17 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-21 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2002-04-21 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 2:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2002-04-22 16:54 ` Brady Montz
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2002-04-22 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2002-04-22 20:46 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-23 4:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-23 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2002-04-23 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 16:21 ` Brady Montz
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2002-04-23 17:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2002-04-23 18:20 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-23 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2002-04-23 19:56 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-23 23:00 ` Michael Toomim
2002-04-24 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2002-04-22 16:56 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-21 9:01 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-21 20:21 ` Simon Josefsson
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2002-04-22 8:50 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-22 9:00 ` Miles Bader
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2002-04-22 10:44 ` Per Abrahamsen
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2002-04-22 12:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-22 22:36 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-23 20:10 ` Tutorials and Demos (Re: " Samuel Mikes
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2002-04-24 4:37 ` Tutorials and Demos Robin S. Socha
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2002-04-20 15:44 ` The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-20 16:59 ` Andy Piper
2002-04-20 19:42 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <sxshem6nolr.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de>
2002-04-21 3:47 ` Michael Toomim
2002-04-21 8:44 ` Per Abrahamsen
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2002-04-20 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-20 14:12 ` Serge Wroclawski
2002-04-20 16:28 ` Brady Montz
2002-04-20 18:51 ` Matt Tucker
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2002-04-20 12:22 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-20 14:04 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-20 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-20 18:59 ` Andreas Schwab
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2002-04-20 19:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <sxs8z7inobz.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de>
2002-04-21 0:56 ` Terje Bless
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2002-04-21 5:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
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2002-04-21 7:24 ` Miles Bader
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2002-04-21 12:21 ` Robert J. Chassell
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2002-04-21 13:35 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-23 11:17 ` Kai Großjohann
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2002-04-20 19:17 ` Michael Toomim
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2002-04-20 19:28 ` Kyle Jones
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2002-04-21 1:09 ` Terje Bless
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2002-04-21 3:28 ` Michael Toomim
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2002-04-21 11:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
[not found] ` <873cxpz436.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu>
2002-04-21 15:41 ` Terje Bless
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2002-04-21 17:08 ` Robert J. Chassell
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2002-04-21 3:46 ` Miles Bader
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2002-04-20 21:26 ` Kyle Jones
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2002-04-21 19:40 ` Michael Toomim
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2002-04-22 3:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2002-04-22 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 11:33 ` Kai Großjohann
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2002-04-22 12:59 ` Simon Josefsson
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2002-04-23 16:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2002-04-23 23:21 ` Terje Bless
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