On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:43:46PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> John> 2) not annoy the user with vanishing paragraphs
>
> Are you sure this is _so_ annoying? I tend to like this behaviour
I suspect you're used to it.
Here's a paragraph. Here's a CoMPLICAted-MarkUP-PHRASE.
Blah blah blah blah
|
Blah blah blah blah x 1000
Now move the cursor up to select the complicated markup for copying and
you have to introduce a newline again.
It's even worse when you have cursor-follows-scrollbar and you go to
check something a few pages up
> John> 4) encourage the user to understand that spacing is not created
> John> by pressing return
>
> That's the big point indeed. The horizontal cursor did that didn't it?
Maybe. But it is new and quite unexpected. It *does* feel reasonably
natural, but I am still worried.
I am *not* worried about users having a blank paragraph or two because
they created a par and then deleted it. Likelihood is the user will
'enjoy' cleaning up the empty paragraph anyway so things look a bit
neater (And of course they are removed on save).
> 5) have maintainable code.
Taken as read :)
john
