In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 23, 2:04 am, Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ snip ] > Apparently because you find the switch second nature, despite its not > being the obvious (which is ctrl-tab, to switch between documents in > an MDI app). Cheat sheet? Memorized with painstaking months of hard > effort? Thanks for proving my point, either way. Not really ragging on you, however it seems, but this is a pet peeve of mine, and I have a few minutes, and this thread is already pretty much out of control, so .... Painstaking months of hard effort? You know, I started out in the days before GUIs, so I have experience with cheat sheets, but I don't remember ever being given one and being told that there would be a quiz in a week, or a month, or whatever. Instead, I used the cheat sheet at first, and over the course of the first few -- hours, weeks, I don't know -- found that I needed it less and less, as the commands I actually used in my daily work made their way into my memory. (Does that mean that I didn't memorize all the commands on the cheat sheet? Maybe. But the ones I didn't learn were ones I didn't need.) To me it's similar to "memorizing" a phone number by dialing it enough times that it makes its way into memory without conscious effort. I suspect that not everyone's brain works this way, and some people have to look it up every time. For those people, I can understand why something without a GUI could be a painful experience. "YMMV", maybe. [ snip ] -- B. L. Massingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
