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Optimizing Product for Fast Typists #323

Open glennljs opened 3 years ago

glennljs commented 3 years ago

Our team is having trouble with tackling this issue. The issue reported states that our additional features (e.g. autocomplete, input history, undo/redo) makes it easier for slow typers to excute command and thus makes our product not optimized for fast typists.

Since the severity of this issue was reported as HIGH, we are afraid we might be misunderstanding or misinterpreting this issue and respond incorrectly. Thus we would like to ask/discuss if this is valid!

Issue #1896

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tlylt commented 3 years ago

I would rate this bug report as 💩.

kouyk commented 3 years ago

The logic here is absurd, these features doesn't not hinder fast-typists from using the app. Removing these features will not increase their productivity right? It's just like saying that a spacious 5-seater car that can possibly fit 7 is no longer a 5-seater car.

damithc commented 3 years ago

Can reject. Some of these features can actually help CLI mode; for example, having the safety of an undo feature allows the user to type a bit faster than usual (because there is less need to slow down and get it right the first time). To be fair to the tester, one argument that can be made is that instead of these features, the effort should have been spent on feature that are even more useful to CLI users e.g., supporting shorter aliases for commands so that users can enter the command faster. That is, given limited resources, one should spend them on what matters to the target user most. But I don't think that's what the ~user~ tester is saying here.