On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Katie Cunningham <[email protected]>wrote:
> UX people help make apps more intuitive by thinking about a user is > experiencing an application. What are their assumptions? What do they > notice? How do they explore the application? How is information > grouped in the interface? > > Some are also designers, but a fair number are also developers. I'm a > version of a UX person (I do accessibility work), but I mostly sling > code for a living. I've also known a few who only do UX. > I've worked with many such people during my career. Some are very good and can make a huge difference for a product. > "Up arrow moves cursor" has confused every Python developer I've put > IDLE in front of. It might be time to rethinking including it, or at > least letting us have options for the different behaviors. I would be > much more likely to open IDLE if it mimicked my shell more. > I agree. I am probably to blame for the original behavior -- I am using the shell in Emacs a lot, where up arrow does what it does in IDLE, and you use Meta-P (I think, only my fingers know it :-) instead. But the shell behavior in a regular terminal window is probably more familiar at this point. We constrain the Tk text widget in various ways, so if we can do this Id say go for it. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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