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From: Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Cc: Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:53:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH-f9Ws8oNb_UzzPNGsw0V29Rh0VTK2Tz0voG0QwLPcKTq1fCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I've spent embarrassingly little time in the emacs UI, so my opinions on
this should be taken lightly, but I feel like all of the bindings are of the
form "if W, do X and Y, otherwise do Z" and, as a result, I'm actively
afraid of what's going to happen when I hit a key. I would much prefer
bindings with simple, highly predictable behavior. I'm sure there's some
workflow for which these contextual, compound bindings are fantastic, but
other workflows wind up fighting against them.

I don't have a specific proposal in mind, but Gmail's bindings seem like a
good model to emulate (the actions, at least; I've never been too fond of
the specific key choices).
On Jun 29, 2011 6:40 PM, "Carl Worth" <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-29 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-29 23:53 Austin Clements [this message]
2011-06-30  7:50 ` Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot Pieter Praet
2011-06-30  8:51   ` Pieter Praet
2011-07-01  1:28   ` Brian May
2011-07-01 21:44     ` Pieter Praet
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-29 19:42 Robin Green
2011-06-29 20:37 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-29 22:40 ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30  3:04   ` Brian May
2011-06-30  4:10     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-06-30  5:40     ` Carl Worth
2011-06-30  7:45       ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 21:26       ` Michael Hudson-Doyle
2011-07-01 16:37         ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-07-01 17:17           ` Austin Clements
2011-07-01 17:11         ` Pieter Praet
2011-06-30 23:02       ` Stewart Smith
2011-06-30  6:29   ` Sebastian Spaeth
2011-07-04 20:09     ` Michal Sojka
2011-07-09 17:09 ` Neeum Zawan
2011-07-09 20:32   ` Daniel Schoepe

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