To wit, one of the nice things about IDEA is its level of configurability. Would it really be so bad to allow this to be a configurable setting? Everything else is... (just about)
sw > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Eap-bugs] Re: Save > > > Michael Morett wrote: > > This heavy handed "I know better than you" approach by the > IDE is not > > helpful. For christ sake, what is the worst that can > happen if I choose to > > save a file by itself? What is the downside? Suddenly > things may not > > compile? So what. I can address that. This "let me save > it for you and > > you can undo it if you dont like it" mentality is horrible. > > Given how many hundreds-of-thousands-of man-hours have been > lost due to > unsaved changes getting lost since the dawn of computers...I > must dissent. > Applications should assume that every change I make is > intentional -- with > the obvious need for the ability to undo those changes. > > Applications should be programmed to the rule, rather than > the exception. > The rule is that when I make a change...I mean it. The > exception (undo > a change) should be handled as an exception - signaled by > intervention by the > user (e.g. the 'undo' command). This is a basic tenet of > good application > design: Anything that can be automated (reliably) should be. > Handle all the > exceptional cases...but don't design the program around them. > > And why should the rest of us care? Because we don't want > the JetBrains > team wasting time to solve a problem that (we think) has > already been solved - > and very well, at that! > We want them solving the bigger problems - the ones that make us more > productive. > > > > ********************************* > Chris Merrill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ********************************* > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-bugs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs > _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
