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[packbat]

I should get a Twitter account. If I had one, I would have just posted this:

Things that cheese me off #eleventy-billion: word processors that italicize or deitalicize the nearest word when you hit Cmd-I, rather than simply switching between typing in plaintext and italics.

Just saying.

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[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And yet for each and every word processor that does switch between typing new characters in plaintext or italics when you press Crtl+I, there'll be someone there saying:

Things that make me want to break things, 21654-D: Word processors where Ctrl+I toggles italics for new text instead of italicising the nearest word.

That said, I prefer the plaintext-italic-switchy behaviour. So, mine would probably be:

You know what really bothers me? Word processors where lazy programmers have picked their favourite behaviour - say, toggling italics or italicising the nearest word when a user presses Ctrl+I - rather than taking the extra five minutes to make it user-configurable. By all means, pick a default - whatever one you like - but give the user the opportunity to decide how their software behaves.

Verbose, sure - but right.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

You are, of course, correct. :D

[roaminrob.livejournal.com]

Something that pisses me off: programs that make everything configurable, thus giving every user plenty of extra opportunities to screw it up beyond anybody's ability to make sense of it.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

...crud, this is one of those Scylla-and-Charybdis things, innit?