begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:11:28PM -0700: [snip] > And in the various IDEs I use, I can select the "Find" menu item, select > the function I want (replace vs. find vs. replace all) and send it > running. No need to remember anything. I can just get the job done.
Sure, there's lots to remember. Where the hell is the mouse? Now, where is the damn pointer? And now let's troll through the menus looking for the (S)earch, dammit, no (S)earch. Maybe (L)ocate? Nope. Perhaps (F)ind? Let's look in the (F)ile menu, as I want to FIND things in this file. No joy. Maybe the (V)iew menu, as I want to VIEW a selection of things. No joy. Perhaps (W)indow, as I want to bring up the FIND WINDOW? Still hates me. Okay, let's walk the menu tree.... what is it doing there under (E)dit? That's dumb. What's this about getting the job done? Oh, I forgot what I was searching for, as it slipped my mind as I was searching for Find. Don't go around thinking that there's less to remember with a GUI. There's just as much to remember, it's just that most GUIs do less, so it's easier to look through all of the possibilities. When you get a GUI that can do as much as a CLI, it gets nearly as complicated as the CLI. This isn't to say that GUIs are useless; even I like using GUIs for some tasks. -- I need bookmarks in my menus so I can see what I've inspected so far. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
