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The Humane Environment

Posted by michael on from the society-for-prevention-of-cruelty-to-computer-users dept.

rael9real writes "Jeff Raskin, developer of the MacOS and author of The Humane Interface [ed.: which was reviewed last year], has been hard at work with several others coding The Humane Environment. They have a developers edition out for Christmas. It runs on Mac OS 9/X. Reading the manual, it is basically a text editor/Python IDE, but it does seem to incorporate some neat ideas in the field. I can't wait to get home and try it out!"

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  1. Re:VIM, Emacs? by greenrd · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Emacs seems pretty modal to me.

    Case in point, a UI flaw I've encountered several times in student labs:

    C-x C-o

    BEEP Minibuffer already active

    BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP Minibuffer already active you idiot!

    Oops. ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC damnit. Hit ESC too many times. Now I have to ESC to ESC out of the ESC...

    Not exactly what I'd call user friendly, that.

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