Re: Any way to stop really annoying "jumping" when using find?
Re: Any way to stop really annoying "jumping" when using find?
- Subject: Re: Any way to stop really annoying "jumping" when using find?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 08:20:20 -0700
Yes, that’s the only way I’ve found that makes it in any way usable. It amazes me how they change things at the drop of a hat without (so it seems) thinking through the consequences of making such an “improvement”. I mean really, this is simple stuff that has been working well in countless apps for 20+ years,
Incremental search has been around since the 1980s in other popular editors like emacs. why all of a sudden does some (not so) bright spark at Apple think that changing the “find” operation would be a good idea, and more worryingly his boss allow it?
I love the way incremental search lets me find something with a minimal number of keystrokes. I concede that for the case discussed in this thread it’s a step back, but that honestly hadn’t occurred to me before; not sure why.
I think both of you are falling into the conceptual trap of conflating your _individual_ experiences and use cases, with the general usability of a feature — i.e. “this doesn’t work for me, therefore whoever designed it is an idiot”.
I’ve worked on a couple of widely used GUI apps (including Mail and iChat, in 10.0–10.5) and I know that nearly any time a feature is changed, even if 99% of users like it there will be somebody complaining that the new way is awful and everyone on the team should be fired.
—Jens |
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