Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Besides, ANY interface that involves fumbling around in the dark > trying to find a light switch is clunky. You should be able to see > what the hell you're doing and navigate easily. Applications that not > only eschew normal methods of navigation of the interface, but force > you to fumble your way between the help and the task you're trying to > do, are definitely clunky. An analogy to a genuine emacs experience: > you enter a workshop with some raw materials and tools. Unfortunately > there's no big ceiling lights so you can just flip the switch by the > door and then always be able to see where everything is. Instead > there's little lights here and there by various specific tools and > storage areas, and in one area a map of the place with switches to > control the lights.
So -- what magical computer app illuminates the entire room and shows you how to use everything at the flip of a switch? This brilliant discovery would put Sam's, O'Reilly, the for-Dummies series, and virtually every other computer book publisher out of business in weeks. Naturally, this would include the publishers of books on "easy-to-use" Microsoft products. -- Edward Dodge -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
