On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > It's not a matter of choice. As you either add *a single note of any > type*, or you put yourself into a mode of batch adding *a lot of > notes of a single type* (and not adding any one). Those are vastly > different actions. Collapsing those meanings would hugely reduce your > capabilities, you would be forced to switch tool modes all the time, > which is bad design.
This interesting discussion instantiates an old debate between modal (vi) and modeless (emacs) editors. Skim tries to achieve the best of both worlds by having both modeless note insertion, and mode change for all notes. One alternative is to have "sticky" modes, like many drawing editors. For instance, the tool palette in OmniGraffle allows you to click once on a tool (say, line), to create an object of that type, or twice, to stay in that mode for subsequent objects until the mode is changed. -- F ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
