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  • From: Eric K Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] RFC: sorcery usabilty study results
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:58:42 -0700

On Monday 31 March 2008 16:26:40 Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> >> So here is the sorted initial list of the shortcuts and what they woud
> >> run: cc - cast --queue (who can spell queue anyway?)
> >> cp - cleanse --prune
> >> dd - dispel --downgrade
> >> gs - gaze search
> >> gv - gaze version
> >> sg - sorcery upgrade
> >> sh - sorcery hold
> >> sq - sorcery -q
> >> su - scribe update
> >
> > In my opinion these are a very bad idea. They will confuse users more
> > (because the meaning behind them will be hidden), and worse, they will
>
> I also do not like this idea. It is very confusing. Moreover most of
> your shortcuts are regular names of Unix commands.
>
> For new users I would created links started with smgl- (smgl-cast;
> smgl-dispel; smgl-scribe; ...) so if user does not know the right
> command he/she just writes smgl- and presses TAB and can see all sorcery
> commands.
>
> Users can use bash-completion.

That may not be a bad feature to have added: symlinks of smgl-<command> to
<command>.

-sandalle

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