🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, bob pasker wrote:

> In article <Pine.3.88.9402221635.A28930-0100000@mallard>, David W Tapley
> <tapled1@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU> wrote:

[...]
> > by only a few of us.  Remember, more features come at the
> > cost of more code, which likely means more bugs and
> > incompatibilities, as well as a slower running program.
>
> surely this does not follow. if programs had built into them the
> navigational capibilities god intended them to have, there would be no need
> for programs such as quickeys. and even a fine product such as endnotes has
> incompatibilities (make sure you use quickeys and not macromaker with
> endnotes). lastly, as far as "more features implies more code" is
> concerned, the features and benefits of quickeys most certainly have a
> concommitant cost in cpu cycles, RAM and disk space.
>
Perhaps my hastily composed message didn't convey my precise meaning.
I agree that navigational capabilities are worth encoding into
EndNote.  But many features people ask for (including me) are
things that might interest only a few.  Rather than encumber the program
with code that only a few will access, it might be more efficient if
those few who need that feature work around it -- and perhaps someone
who develops a good workaround could post the solution here, or
if a macro is involved, post it on the FTP server.

By the way, I was one of those who whined and moaned a year or so
ago about EN not being able to support citation prefixes.  I've
been using the new PIM, which now has this capability, and I
like it (good job, Niles).  So I am not a luddite who resists
change!

Dave