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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting
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graydon hoare |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting |
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Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:25:27 -0400 |
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:14:16 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
<address@hidden> wrote:
I don't know how else to say this: from a technical point of view,
fine. From a usability and user interface point of view, I find that
to be a horrible idea, riddled with confusion and error prone as a
result.
yeah, I agree. which is why I said I don't like all this whitespace
delimiting stuff.
The existence of tabs will not make matters better, trust me.
no doubt. but neither will pretending like we can "intelligently"
guess when a user means to have leading or trailing spaces and when
they do not. apparantly some users do. windows users seem to like
this stuff.
Or have a completely different delimiter than space. I've no idea
what syntax you're imagining that basic_io.cc would handle...
it uses delimiters and a numeric byte count. [sNN:<NN bytes>].
that's why. it has 2 things going for it:
- by having a number (thus requiring arithmetic) it says "hands off"
- by having delimiters *and* a number there's a good chance we'll
notice when the user sticks their fingers in it anyways.
-graydon
- [Monotone-devel] .mt-attrs formatting, Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] .mt-attrs formatting, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, graydon hoare, 2004/08/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting,
graydon hoare <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Kevin Smith, 2004/08/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Jon Bright, 2004/08/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Phil de Joux, 2004/08/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, graydon hoare, 2004/08/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/19
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: .mt-attrs formatting, Brian Campbell, 2004/08/19