On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 12:58 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> From this thread you can find at least two people (me and Ben
> Rosser)
> who definitely didn't keep using vi (my very next questions were
> "what's an easier editor to use?" and "how do I change the
default
> editor to something else?"), and are still sufficiently frazzled by
> the
> experience that we still refuse to. :P
Right, and I acutally think thats great. You had a problem, you
asked the
questions you needed answers to, and solved your problem. I
personally think
the process of identifying whats bothering you, figuring out a
solution (by
asking questions, getting answers and experimenting), and then
implementing your
fix is actually a pretty good user experience in and of itself
(though that may
just be me). :)
That is not how it felt at the time :P
It's really the point about Unexpected Forcible Learning. If I sit down
at my computer and think "right, I'm going to learn to do X", that's
one thing. I am mentally prepared to spend some time stumbling around
working out how to do X.
The problem with this experience is that's not how it happens. You
don't sit down and thinking "today I'm going to learn how to use vi" or
"today I'm going to learn about console text editors and the $EDITOR
variable". You were intending to do something else, and you were
suddenly sandbagged by this fracking weird thing you have no idea what
it is that got in the way of the something else you were trying to do.
Yes, eventually you learn something, but it's not a "pretty good user
experience", it is a frustrating and annoying one.
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