Re: Great SWT Program
- From: blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Nov 2007 23:30:32 GMT
In article <1194129832.399217.85430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 1, 5:43 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If they've improved things since then, there's still the matter that
Windows and Mac and I expect KDE and Gnome search boxes reappear
populated with the last performed query, while those / prompts give
you a tabula rasa every time...
All it takes to counter that is to be able to retrieve the previous
query in a few tools.
I said the / prompt comes up blank. Is this or is this not true?
It's true -- and I said so in a previous post.
I may have lost track of what we were arguing about. When the
discussion spans many days, that's easy to do. I guess I could be
more conscientious about reviewing several previous posts rather
than just the one I'm replying to.
(What
you can get by subsequently hitting keys is irrelevant; if you want to
"counter that" you will need to show me an instance of it not coming
up initially blank. Indeed you'd need to show that that is no longer
common behavior at all.)
Ah. I keep forgetting that for you the only functionality that
counts is what someone who only knows the Windows conventions can
easily discover, without reading any documentation. That seems
kind of limiting to me, but -- whatever.
[ snip ]
I tried vim and the pager "less". Both of
them keep a history of previous searches one can cycle through,
giving access not just to the immediately-previous search but to
earlier ones as well. That can be useful. I can't be bothered
to do experiments to find out whether typical GUI search dialogs
support that. Maybe they do.
See above -- some don't provide anything fancy, usually in
applications where there's little need. More sophisticated ones
designed to support large and complex user tasks provide a drop-down
history and/or autocomplete of previous searches.
Useful information. Thank you. Autocomplete -- I'm guessing
this is more of that "here, let me help you!" behavior I find so
irritating in "modern" tools. (I prefer that the program only
help me when I ask it to.) But presumably one gets used to it.
Explorer's search
Is that the one with the cute animated character? Don't get me
started .... Yes, yes, I know you can make the puppy go away.
But the fact that it exists at all -- well, okay, maybe this
whole system *is* a toy, or a joke, or meant mainly to entertain.
[ snip ]
--
B. L. Massingill
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