From: Vince Darley (vince@santafe.edu)
Date: 15 Mar 01, 05:04 EST
From: Vince Darley <vince@santafe.edu> Subject: Re: [Alpha-Bugzilla Bug 224] chooseWindowStatus is broken Mark, I agree with you. I think the procedure should usually not complete and there should be a special completion key-combo (i'm not sure what that should be, perhaps 'ctrl-w' which would bear some similarity to isearch, perhaps 'tab',...). Also have to think if there are uses of the procedure which shoiuld complete by default. -- Vince <http://www.santafe.edu/~vince> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Masatsugu Nagata wrote: > Jon wrote: > > > At 7:35 AM +0900 3/14/01, Masatsugu Nagata wrote: > > > > >Hmm... Do you seriously think an interface that _forces_ me to type > > >"po2", when windows named "prefs.tcl", "prompts.tcl" and "prompts2.tcl" > > >are open, is a good interface? I think it is crazy. > > > > "po2"? No, that doesn't make much sense to me. > > > But that's exactly how Vince's current 'prompts.tcl' works! > (That doesn't make sense to me, so I am currently trying to ask Vince > to change his mind.) > > When three windows "prefs.tcl", "prompts.tcl", "prompts2.tcl" are open, > as soon as I type "p", Vince's completion auto-fills "pr". > (I can't type "pr", because the completion thinks of "prr" in that case) > then I have to type "o", at which time the completion says "prompts" > then I have to type "2", then the completion takes it as "prompts2.tcl". > > You see, in order to "satisfy" this "completion" routine, I HAVE to > type "po2", to specify the window name "prompts2.tcl". NO OTHER typing > is ALLOWED. I am saying that such interface is not good. > > I want the completion routine to recognise my typing "prompts2" > to mean "prompts2.tcl", _not_ "prromptsompts2". > > With this "sophisticated" completion routine of Vince', us users have > to "think hard", to type "po2" to pursuade the routine to recognise > "prompts2". I consider that's not a _human_ interface. I want to > type "prompts2", not "po2". > > > > >BTW, which "resources" are you talking about, Jon? > > > > Mental. > > > I need a _humanly_ interface so that I can smoothly work using a text > editor, so that I _can_ save my mental resources. :-) > > Mark > -- > Mark Nagata > mailto:nagata@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp > > _______________________________________________ > AlphaTcl-developers mailing list > AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers > _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers