tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post2317149856090759028..comments2024-02-17T03:47:06.818-08:00Comments on CraigBlog: Whither Keybindings?Craig Anderahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084199593129216563noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-84003484045883413962004-06-21T02:09:00.000-07:002004-06-21T02:09:00.000-07:00Unfortunately, I do not. Some googling a while bac...Unfortunately, I do not. Some googling a while back failed to turn it up, but maybe you'll have more luck: it was a student at the University of Waterloo in Canada.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-123953364274070442004-06-19T20:27:00.000-07:002004-06-19T20:27:00.000-07:00Do you have a link to this research on keybinding ...Do you have a link to this research on keybinding productivity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-1901755856215603802004-06-18T12:57:00.000-07:002004-06-18T12:57:00.000-07:00the emacs keybindings in xcode are a standard coco...the emacs keybindings in xcode are a standard cocoa thing (try them in TextEdit, for example), that've been around for years -- apparently someone at NeXT was a big emacs fan (and as a vim guy myself, it pisses me off immensely...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441850399540300710.post-29405511521761830892004-06-18T11:26:00.000-07:002004-06-18T11:26:00.000-07:00I also think it has to deal with the type of peopl...I also think it has to deal with the type of people your dealing with, i.e. having people in a development environment vs. a user environment. When my wife asks me how to do something across our two desks, I'll usually answer in some cryptic (she says) combination of Control-Meta-tap-dance-hokey-pokey when she is looking for "click here. then here. then here." When teaching our interns how to use subversion / dreamweaver / whatever I find myself getting frustrated because they're taking so long using the mouse to get around.<br /><br />Look at Mac kids, some of them are key binding wizards, but 99.9% of them know Cmd-Q because it benefits them directly.<br /><br />Although Apple's move to put emacs key bindings in XCode (Project Builder) was one hell of a coup.<br /><br />I'm in your camp. Just it sucks when you change them on people. Imagine if emacs changed their bindings, you'd have an enormous amount of gripes, but like any change in the software world, people will get over it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com