Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
Pahtz writes: "A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book "The Humane Interface", is the leader of the open-source THE Development Team."
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The editor described in the manual seems to be a _lot_ like vi.
No mouse required? Check.
Easy searching? Check.
Separate editing and command modes? Check.
This is good, because I _love_ vi. The fastest editor for touch typists ever! Emacs isn't bad, but I get finger cramps using Ctrl and Meta on a PC keyboard.
I haven't used it or read the author's book, although now I plan to. I am wondering how new users learn what commands are available? With a GUI, the user can browse through menus, looking for items that might do what they want. How does The Humane Environment handle new users?
I agree with Raskin's ideas about automatically saving and unlimited undo. This is something all applications should have. Raskin may have included these in his book, but the following are a few ideas I'd include.
I would also want the ability in all applications to view the Undo log and Redo an arbitrary sequence of events. I may have deleted something 20 events back that I now want, but don't want to lose work in events 19-current.
I also want every application to save the Undo log with the document so that when work resumes, the Undo information is not lost. In this way, every application would have a revision history.
I think that one part of the future of computing is networking and enabling groups to work together effectively. To aid this, I would include the ability for multiple simultaneous users to work with an application and document.