Re: [9front] Goodbye, MothraReferences: <20130131172100.1909d97e@vardo.ethans.dre.am>

Re: [9front] Goodbye, MothraReferences: <20130131172100.1909d97e@vardo.ethans.dre.am>

[Matthew Veety]

I wish I was this tactful when I dump lovers.

On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:21, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Goodbye Mothra.  It's been a good run, but you really don't have what
> I need.  Libpanel?  Please.  I need real text editing, not some 40
> year old proof-of-concept that doesn't know what cursor keys are and
> barely tolerates being manipulated by a mouse.
> 
> That's… I haven't even got started.  It's not just text editing, your
> whole interface doesn't know what to do with the mouse.  You treat it
> as if you can just take it globally and have it do whatever wherever,
> but that just means you never know if I'm using a dropdown, selecting
> text, or even using your scrollbar.  You get all 3 mixed up, honey.
> If you'd been designed in the slightest bit properly, you wouldn't get
> them mixed up at all.
> 
> And, speaking of proper design, your text selection really isn't it,
> Mothra.  Whole-word selection might be kinda nice but you can't get
> away with sticking a space onto the *beginning* of the selection every
> time.  And line breaks!  For crying out loud, you do not insert line
> breaks willy-nilly into text that was never meant to have them!  This
> is just not on.
> 
> And… there's even more.  As if all that wasn't enough there's moth
> mode and your… your *intrusive* bar at the top.  Between switching
> your bar on and off all the time and going into and out of moth mode,
> I feel like I'm using Vi when I use you, Mothra, and you damn well
> know how I feel about Vi. It's just a mess, the numbers clutter my
> head, the list clutters the screen when its open and doesn't show
> needed details when it's not, and… and why the bloody hell do you not
> have relative jumps?  Yeah yeah all right you might say you could be
> patched for that in no time, but then what about everything else!
> Text and mouse issues, your basic… fundamental *design* with all the
> clutter and the cryptic moth mode, and… no.  It's just too much.
> 
> I… I like your spirit, I think, Mothra, you'll always have that, but I
> think you've lost your way with moth mode and besides that, how much
> to you want to be patched?  This is ridiculous.  I'm not… I'm not even
> going to try to change you that much, Mothra.  It would be stupid, you
> wouldn't even be you at the end of it, and I'm just not going to do
> that.
> 
> I'm going back to Abaco now.  She has her faults, sure, and she does
> need a little bit of help, but I don't have to really change her to
> live with her.  You and me would never have worked, Mothra.  Goodbye
> now.