On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:36:10 +0100, tim hall wrote: > Last Monday 25 July 2005 22:15, Kevin Cosgrove was like: > > On 25 July 2005 at 15:46, Ben Loftis <ben@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Most professional audio gear is like a bicycle. A bike is > > > certainly not intuitive to a first time user, but once you > > > learn how to balance, steer, etc, you can get around faster > > > than someone on foot. This has sometimes been described as > > > "intuitable" rather than intuitive. > > > > Or, "discoverable" versus "usable". > > > > Word is easy to discover for easy things to do. 'vi' is > > *much* faster, if my 'vi' speed versus the 'Word' speed of my > > compatriots is any gauge. Pull-down menus are "intuitive", where > > as hot-keys are not. But, hot-keys get the work done quickly > > once they're known. Pull-down menus which list their hot-key > > shortcuts in the menu are quite nice for me. The Opera web > > browser is one example of this. > > Thanks Kevin. All keybindings have to be learned. I can't use vi without > constant reference to the manual. I dare say the same would be true of emacs. > I dislike them both and use nedit for everything, simply because it works > much more like a Windows based editor, so I had to relearn less in order to > get typing when I first migrated. It's nothing to do with intuitabilty either > - old habits die hard. True, you have to decide wether its worth the effort. When I started developing on UNIX machines I watched the old hands and relaised that 1) they were all much faster than me, and 2) they (almost) all used vi. So I took the effort to learn, in the knowledge that I would spend a lot of my life typing. It took makes months to be able to fly vi, but now you can prise it from my cold dead fingers. I experience extreme discomfort when forced to use a non-modal editor, and when I have to go through afterwards and remove all the ^[hhhhhhcw afterwards :) For anyone whos thinking of learning, dont start by trying to digest it all, just start with i A yy dd, and go from there, its all pretty logical when you get into it. - Steve^[ZZ
