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This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.
"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @04:56PM (5 children)
Damn Microsoft and their ctrl-f choice. I learned ctrl-s / ctrl-r along with other emacs (mostly mnemonic) commands and it took years to get my brain to switch context properly.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday December 23 2019, @08:48PM (4 children)
But EMACS is unusable, because of all the multi-key commands. Two keys is (usually) ok, but three simultaneous keys is intolerable.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by krishnoid on Monday December 23 2019, @09:36PM (3 children)
Pfft -- if God didn't want you to use multiple-key combinations, why did s/he give you ten fingers? You're just whining.
Actually, do piano players have an easier time of Emacs?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Tuesday December 24 2019, @12:51AM (2 children)
No. Pianos are designed to allow multiple keys to be played at once. Keyboard require contortions that I found painful even when I was 30, and not find impossible.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Dr Spin on Tuesday December 24 2019, @01:42PM (1 child)
Emacs does not work on my piano you must have a new-fangled Yamaha or something!
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 24 2019, @04:15PM
Assuming an electric/electronic piano keyboard, it should be pretty straightforward to bind the keys to emacs. Might be nice to have a really long, linear keyboard to go with a big monitor?