Cmd-L... of course one has to know why it is there in the first place. And no dialog or undo is needed. Why not put the content in the clipboard and be done with it? I am doing select all and copy before some Cmd-L.
Oops didn't wanted to spawn further discussion... Just that it is the way I use it now. On Monday, January 13, 2014, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > On 13 Jan 2014, at 01:12, Sebastian Sastre > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > On Jan 12, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe > > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >> Cancel is next to Accept in almost any Edit menu, with the command keys > L and S respectively. You should have seen this the moment you started > coding: > > > > This comment brings something interesting to add to the discussion and, > Sven, you might not have said that in this way but, with your permission, I > want to point out this only to leave a record for all of us to reflect. > > > > you see... the problem with what should or shouldn't have the user seen, > is that it suggest the user is under evaluation. > > > > Worst, it suggest a dualistic way to evaluate it. > > > > Is not the user who is under evaluation. > > > > It's your product's success in helping the user to do some task with > less resistance. > > > > The way you evaluate usability is in observing the resistance points (UI > fails), or absence of it (UI successes) on tasks the user is trying to > achieve. > > > > Of course our challenge and opportunity is in embracing this and take a > deep breath to resist the temptation to appeal to any of these: > > > http://www.satinderrana.com/blog/2010/07/top-20-excuses-for-broken-code-by-a-software-engineer/ > > > > Pharo rocks and, as all products, has space for improvements (I can give > quite some feedback about that menu BTW) > > > > What we have here, is an opportunity to put some love in its user > experience to make it more awesome for more people > > > > sebastian > > > > o/ > > Please do, Sebastian, start discussing about ways to improve the basic UI, > you seem to have an interest in the subject. It will of course be quite > hard with so many opinions. > > Sven > > > > -- --- Philippe Back Dramatic Performance Improvements Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail:[email protected] | Web: http://philippeback.eu Blog: http://philippeback.be | Twitter: @philippeback Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/philippeback/videos High Octane SPRL rue cour Boisacq 101 | 1301 Bierges | Belgium Pharo Consortium Member - http://consortium.pharo.org/ Featured on the Software Process and Measurement Cast - http://spamcast.libsyn.com Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Ability Engineering EADocX Value Added Reseller
