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Article #34Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Dale King
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:42
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:42
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"Tim Tyler" <tim@tt1.org> wrote in message news:H00z5t.95o@bath.ac.uk... > In comp.lang.java.advocacy Jon Skeet <skeet@pobox.com> wrote: > : Tim Tyler <tim@tt1.org> wrote: > > :> I find I sometimes outdent manually if there are only a small number > :> of lines and they don't need to be outdented far. Basically it's > :> less effort than selecting the region and outdenting it. > > : How, out of interest? Take an example of 5 lines. How is it faster to > : outdent manually than to use: > > : Shift+(Down x 5) > : Shift+Tab > > : That's a total of 7 keypresses as you can keep shift down between going > : down and hitting tab. > > : How is that less effort than (Down, Backspace) x 5? > > I referred to "a small number of lines". > > I reckon by that I mean 1, 2, or sometimes 3. In which case it really makes little difference to me that I hit the same key 4 times or 1 time since it is the same key. If it were 4 different keys versus one key then I would agree. As stated that is insignificant compared to the lack of portability to me. -- Dale King
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,9881175998020bf0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,9881175998020bf0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 10cf9d,9881175998020bf0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cf9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-30 09:43:06 PST From: "Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.java.programmer,borland.public.jbuilder.non-technical References: <7emX8.89256$p85.2379351@twister.austin.rr.com> <55e900c9.0207241438.53b31b98@posting.google.com> <ahnekk$u87k0$1@ID-76405.news.dfncis.de> <55e900c9.0207250455.2363cfcd@posting.google.com> <ahsd0s$vm2qr$1@ID-76405.news.dfncis.de> <55e900c9.0207271826.36013481@posting.google.com> <GzyH4r.2yJ@bath.ac.uk> <55e900c9.0207281914.20261d1c@posting.google.com> <H00310.Kr9@bath.ac.uk> <3d457627@news.tce.com> <H00t51.n51@bath.ac.uk> <MPG.17afa009eee16cd098b854@dnews.peramon.com> <H00z5t.95o@bath.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:42:56 -0500 Lines: 32 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.254.41.108 Message-ID: <3d46c72f@news.tce.com> X-Trace: 30 Jul 2002 12:04:47 -0600, 157.254.41.108 Organization: Thomson Consumer Electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!newsfeed.cwix.com!pullfeed!news.tce.com!157.254.41.108