论文标题
关于文本编辑器的设计
On the design of text editors
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论文摘要
文本编辑器是由开发人员编写的。它们在布局,版式,着色和交互方面都带有大量的默认和隐式选择,这些选择几乎不会从一个编辑器变为另一个编辑器。目前尚不清楚这些隐式选择是否来自对替代方案的无知,还是从开发人员的习惯中得出,再现了它们所用的东西。本文的目的是表征这些隐性选择,并说明在不开处方的情况下有什么选择。
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.