[TxMt] Feature request/query

[Gerd Knops]

On Tue, Oct 4, at 1:30 AM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:

> Gerd Knops wrote:
>
>> Of course ideally a user would have the same flexibility to  
>> configure mouse-buttons as with shortcuts, eg single/double/ 
>> tripple click with modifier X in context Y would cause action Z.
>>
>
> That kind of thinking is exactly why most common users are staying  
> away from Linux. Users generally don't want an overload of options.  
> They want sensible defaults, with preferences to change common things.
> And maybe would you then add an advanced preferences thing where  
> you would cater for the 1% of the users that wants to configure  
> everything themselves ;)

I am sorry, but we are talking about a programmers text editor on  
this list. So I believe the audience is just a tad above 'most common  
users'.

TM is a program with which I spend many hours every day. I think my  
desire to be able to customize it to my needs is not at all unwarranted.

I agree that TM should come with a clean UI and sensible default  
settings as to not confuse the novice TM user (note that I am not  
saying 'novice user', we are still talking programmers).

But the demands are many. TM is used by application developers, Web  
site developers, Script developers, Manual authors, Java application  
developers, Microcode/assembler coders and many more. All of these  
tasks have somewhat differing requirements. Add to that preferences  
in coding style, and predisposition of users for 'mostly keyboard  
user' or 'visual user'.

All that flexibility requires a certain amount of configurability.  
Not necessarily visible from the UI, as an example just think of Key  
Bindings, which I am sure quite a few users modify for their needs.

Gerd