Re: [Usability] Activating find with /

[Diego Moya <turingt gmail com>]

On 23/11/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne gmail com> wrote:
> I'm a pesky emacs user and guess how many times I've been frustrated
> that apps think Ctrl+S should be save instead of search? :) My point
> is that options are bad because they have weird side-effects. What if
> you tell the average user that you can use either '/' or Ctrl+F to
> invoke find? Some will start using '/' to search because on English
> keyboards it is one keypress less. Then they will be annoyed because
> it only works in some apps and not in others because it is impossible
> to make '/' as search a standard shortcut since it doesn't work when
> editing text.

The solution, of course, is defining a standard behaviour that will
solve all posible cases of interaction (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy ).

It´s a shame that this standard exists, but it has a patent on it.