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arXiv:2008.06030 (cs)
[Submitted on 13 Aug 2020 (v1), last revised 3 Sep 2020 (this
version, v2)]

Title:On the design of text editors

Authors:Nicolas P. Rougier
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    Abstract:Text editors are written by and for developers. They
    come with a large set of default and implicit choices in terms of
    layout, typography, colorization and interaction that hardly
    change from one editor to the other. It is not clear if these
    implicit choices derive from the ignorance of alternatives or if
    they derive from developers' habits, reproducing what they are
    used to. The goal of this article is to characterize these
    implicit choices and to illustrate what are some alternatives
    without prescribing one or the other.

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures, conference
Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
Cite as:  arXiv:2008.06030 [cs.HC]
          (or arXiv:2008.06030v2 [cs.HC] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2008.06030
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From: Nicolas Rougier [view email]
[v1] Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:40:48 UTC (3,977 KB)
[v2] Thu, 3 Sep 2020 09:51:05 UTC (3,977 KB)
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