Re: [ jEdit-users ] Re: replace-all feature request

[Eric B. <el...@gm...>]

>
> Just because jEdit is a "Programmer's Text Editor" doesn't mean it
> can't be user-friendly. As soon as we start making assumptions about
> the users, we ignore their needs.



I'm not suggesting ignoreing anyone's needs, in fact I think "we" should
indeed listen to user's "needs", but this seems to be an extreme exception
where someone who doesn't really know how to use the software, is using it
and has made a big mistake. This doesn't mean we should go an change a bunc=
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of stuff to cater to this one mistake. Like a lot of other people have
mentioned, I have made mistakes very similar to this myself. I learn from m=
y
mistakes and try not to make them again. I think this is a definite case
where the user should be informed of his/her mistake and be asked not to
make it again. Or, if this is a situation that arises frequently with Dima'=
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users, then he should make this part of his plugin that only THEY are using=
.
To me a "need" is not defined by one person's mistake, but by a general
consensus from the user's who use the software all the time. I think that i=
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there were a lot of user's having this same problem no one would have any
problem fixing it, but from what I can see, that is not the consensus.

This is not the same thing as suggesting a new feature, this is asking to
change the known function of a popular feature.

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