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Inspiration from Existing Editors

onlyafly edited this page Oct 31, 2011 · 2 revisions

Ajure should look to existing editors for inspiration-- both for ideas on what to implement as well as pointers on mistakes not to repeat.

Ideas from Emacs

  • Make functionality discoverable (how do you figure out how to do something?)
  • Focus on being a good editor, not something more.
  • Do not use obscure shortcuts. If a modern usage convention exists, use that instead.

Ideas from TextEdit

  • In-application way to download and install extensions.

Ideas from Smultron

  • Searching