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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:54:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4F35F2.D8F22FAD@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010713161239.A8E3D199E7@mail.cse.psu.edu>

rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> i remember ages ago reading in a paper about somebody
> (on the Blit?) doing that.

Yeah, it was fairly common for us Blit-family users.

> personally, i think it's quite nice *not* to have the visual
> feedback all the time - that way i can concentrate
> on the content of the text i'm creating without being
> distracted by occasional display glitches.

Note that i suggested it should occur only when one has
just written out the editor buffer.  Usually I do this
only at fairly well-defined stages of completion, which
is a natural time to have the result presented for
inspection.

Also, you can ignore the refresh going on in another
window.  Many people have stuff going on in other windows
that the one they're currently focussed on.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-16  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-13 16:22 rog
2001-07-14  0:23 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-16  8:54 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-07-16 15:46   ` david presotto
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-16 18:15 David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-16 16:21 rog
2001-07-16 16:46 ` suspect
2001-07-13 16:32 jmk
2001-07-16  8:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-16 15:21   ` Rick Hohensee
2001-07-13 12:49 presotto
2001-07-13 13:38 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 15:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-14  0:19   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-02 10:27   ` Ralph
2001-08-02 11:24     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-03  9:05       ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-08-03 10:15         ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13  9:17 okamoto
2001-07-13  9:12 okamoto
2001-07-13 10:07 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 10:49   ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-13 10:59     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 11:11       ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-13 15:26         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 16:20           ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-14  0:28             ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-16  8:54             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-16  9:55               ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13  8:00 Laura Creighton
2001-07-13  9:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 15:25   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:44     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 20:47   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-07-14 14:45     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 15:25 ` Douglas A. Gwyn

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