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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:28:18 -0700
"Jeff Rafter" <lists@jeffrafter.com> wrote:
> >Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> > Editors that try this stuff are actively crippling. Even if
> > they were wicked fast (which they aren't), this feature would still
> > get in my way and stop me from doing what I need to do. Features like
> > this are harmful by their very nature, irrespective of performance
> > issues.
>
> Man of extremes is right. Again I find myself on (what I assume will be)
> the losing side of an argument : ) How can it possibly be argued that
> they are harmful by nature?
I am *so* in agreement with Elliotte here. Although I would extend it
beyond XML editors; I absolutely cannot use any programming language
editor that does auto-completion, if it can't be disabled. And I think
that *that* is a great principle for any editor--don't do *anything* to my
damned document (whether it's narrative or structural) unless I *ask* you
to, thank you very much.
On a slight tangent which will return to the circle relatively quickly, I
can't use auto-completion editors ("code insight" and the like) because I
can't turn my internal auto-completion off. Having something end up
looking like this: System.out.println("text goes here");n(); isn't
helpful. Much the same is true of over-helpful XML editors (and is the
main reason I've had trouble using them (this is our return from tangent,
please note, aren't I being good?)): <element attribute="value"="" >text
content</element></element> is fairly messed up. Leave me alone when I'm
typing. Give me a key to tap on if I need help. *However*, several of my
colleagues absolutely cannot comprehend this attitude, and profess
themselves unable to survive without automatic code-completion sorts of
facilities (most of them type slow, too, she sneered).
Amy!
--
Amelia A. Lewis amyzing {at} talsever.com
You like the taste of danger, it shines like sugar on your lips,
and you like to stand in the line of fire
just to show you can shoot straight from your hip.
There must be a 1000 things you would die for;
I can hardly think of two.
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