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In <9301100004.AA10110@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
>Let's say that your suggestion and mine were seriously being
>considered for implementation.  Assuming insistence on use of
>INTUITIVE ONE-character commands, and if the upper-case "R" is used
[...]
>Seems like we're already running out of command-space that can be
>used intuitively.  (sigh)
[...]
>I'd like to add that insistence on 1-char commands does not make it
>easy to keep the command structure simple for the user, nor does it
>in any way help to increase intuitiveness.

I'm pleased that elm is as friendly as it is, since that makes it so much
easier to proselytize as I move from site to site.

However, it's easy to forget that "user friendly" almost always means "expert
hostile."  If we stress "intuition" and the like to the extent of losing
conciseness, then we lose a lot.

My vote (approporately weighted since I'm not on the development team :) is
to keep everything as short and sweet as possible, even if it means making
Joe Appliance-User remember that "z" means "reply and let me type the address."

Rob
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