lör 2002-12-14 klockan 04.55 skrev Michael Toomim: > Particularly, XEmacs gives you three of the features that you were > talking about: > A) Uses a little line at the bottom of the screen for you to type the > search words in so that you don't get the annoying dialog box Yeah. Dialog boxes are evil. Especially modal dialogs in combination with multiple workspaces... > C) Lets you search forwards and backwards without clicking on any buttons If you know the right combinations of control-x-l-control-alpah-x-t-r to press... > There are problems with the (X)Emacs appraoch as well. For instance, > newbies often don't see the little line at the bottom where they type > their search terms, it isn't as obvious and in-yer-face as a dialog box, > and the dialog box approach doesn't require you to totally mangle your > existing UI layout in order to fit a search box somewhere (which causes > confusion, disturbs the peace, and isn't as easy to code). People probably miss the search line because it is part of the text widget. I think the attached images displays a much better interface with a bout the same features. I think you know how to use this just by looking at it. Don't ditch it just because it looks microsoftisch... ;)
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