Preventing the user shooting themself in the foot

[Pieter Praet]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:53:03 -0400, Austin Clements <amdragon at mit.edu> wrote:
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> I've spent embarrassingly little time in the emacs UI, so my opinions on
> this should be taken lightly, but I feel like all of the bindings are of the
> form "if W, do X and Y, otherwise do Z" and, as a result, I'm actively
> afraid of what's going to happen when I hit a key. I would much prefer
> bindings with simple, highly predictable behavior. I'm sure there's some
> workflow for which these contextual, compound bindings are fantastic, but
> other workflows wind up fighting against them.

Very true!

> I don't have a specific proposal in mind, but Gmail's bindings seem like a
> good model to emulate (the actions, at least; I've never been too fond of
> the specific key choices).

+1

And AFAIK, "Archive" does *not* mark a message as read in GMail.
(see previous messages suggesting the inverse)

> On Jun 29, 2011 6:40 PM, "Carl Worth" <cworth at cworth.org> wrote:
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Peace

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Pieter