Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Usability]Insert/overwrite, how should i do a usability study?]]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

[In response to a message Calum sent offlist
from one of the Sun HCI people, which i probably should have included but
maybe he did not want it publically archived, so i just made a tiny
quote.]

> Larry now has the license place, "No Modes".
> The moral -- convince them that Clearly visible modes are much

I agree, i never use overwrite and dont like the concept of modes.  I have
fat chance of convincing them to drop the modes.  Even if the idea were to
get strong support from the experts, there would need to be some way to
reenable Overwrite mode for the rare few who use it.

A vaguely interesting side note to this story is that we used to have
"Emacs Mode" and "Vi Mode" if you hit F10 (?) you would switch to having
keybindings like the aforementioned programs.  This mode is no longer
available due to the risk of confusing ordinary users, but can still be
enabled by manually editing the abiword configuration file (but the
feature only covers some basic keybindings and is largely unmaintained).

Sincerely
Alan H.


On 21 Jan 2003, Calum Benson wrote:

> Date: 21 Jan 2003 18:23:23 +0000
> From: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
> To: horkana maths tcd ie
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: [Usability]Insert/overwrite,
>      how should i do a usability study?]]
>
> Another reply from Sun HCI...
>
> --Calum.
>
>