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@ 1993-07-02 2:43 John Mackin
1993-07-02 3:53 ` Ozan S. Yigit
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From: John Mackin @ 1993-07-02 2:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
+ }else if(nwhich && nwhich!=which){
+ current(nwhich);
And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.
If you have one.
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1993-07-02 2:43 John Mackin
@ 1993-07-02 3:53 ` Ozan S. Yigit
1993-07-02 4:01 ` David Hogan
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From: Ozan S. Yigit @ 1993-07-02 3:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Mackin; +Cc: sam-fans
> And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.
just because he eliminated click-to-type? But look what Rob
later wrote[1]:
"Several interrelated rules were followed in the design of
the interface. These rules are intented to make the system as
efficient and comfortable as possible for its _users_. First,
_brevity_: there should be no actions in the interface - button
clicks or other gestures - that do not directly affect the
system. Thus, help is not a `click-to-type' system because that
click is wasted; there are no pop-up menus because the gesture
required to make them appear is wasted; and so on."
so, sam is halfclick there. ;-)
oz
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[1] R. Pike
A Minimalist Global User Interface
Proceedings of the Summer 1991 Usenix Conference
Nashwille, Tenn.
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1993-07-02 3:53 ` Ozan S. Yigit
@ 1993-07-02 4:01 ` David Hogan
1993-07-02 4:25 ` click-to-type noel
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From: David Hogan @ 1993-07-02 4:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ozan S. Yigit; +Cc: sam-fans
> > And may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.
> just because he eliminated click-to-type? But look what Rob
> later wrote[1]:
> [...help quote elided...]
Yes, but help is not sam, and sam is not help. Abandoning
click-to-type worked well for help, because every bit of text
on the screen is a potential command for help to execute, so
instead of having pop-up menus you have windows with commands
in them. It's part of the overall design. Sam was designed
to have a click-to-type policy, and it works very well the way
it is. And besides, there is a long tradition of sam users
who have enjoyed its very click-to-type-ness, and probably
view this change as an act of desecration (I know I do :-).
``We're all in it together'' - Brazil
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