| Larry W. Virden 2007-08-31, 9:24 am |
| On Aug 30, 6:21 pm, Cesar Rabak <csra...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Larry W. Virden escreveu:> eventually, someone should break down and create a tool that asks the
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> Quite a nice idea. . . every answer from the program would be subject to
> rebuttals from n - 1 other editors not chosen :-D
I don't think so. I mean there are specific features that people
frequently look for in a editor. For example,
Does the editor support syntax coloring?
How are you going to argue that ? Either it does, or it doesn't.
Certainly there are "subjective" questions that one would avoid "which
editor is more user friendly", "which editor is the best".
You focus on identifying the features a user wants - does it support
text folding, syntax highlighting, templates, macros, whatever
features that you want in a text editor . Each editor gets an answer.
As the user answers a question, that reduces the number of editors to
consider. Perhaps the program mis designed in a way that one only is
asked questions that are relevant to the remaining options, which
means that one moves through the options to an answer more quickly, or
maybe the user is asked all the questions, because one need might be
less important than another that would take them down a different
decision path. It might be interesting to have either option of
exploring the editors.
Certainly I could see a situation where the information about an
editor is wrong - someone says an editor can do AAA but it can't, or
says an editor can't do BBB but it can, if you load a special file or
whatever. When those cases come up, then the data driving the
application would need to be updated.
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