On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
Hi Bear,One that John (I think) didn't mention is that because the command mode is triggered by /mail or /note that means I would have to escape the / to search on it - which for a novice user may be very confusing the first time they "discover" that feature.I'm not sure that's true. Certainly you'd have to escape "/mail" or any other command, but unrecognized commands could (and probably should) be interpreted as normal strings for whatever the current default command is.
sure - you would only have to escape those items that are command triggers, but if the text area is primarily labeled "search" a new user would be very confused to find the search for "/mail" (expecting to hit items like with "/mail" in it) to suddenly cause a new message to appear.
after reading the other replies I now see that the text area is supposed to be a command area in which search is but one part of it's duty - that to me makes a world of difference as the user goes into the task knowing what context is required.
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