[Design] Suggestions on Quick Item Entry in the Search bar

Jeffrey Harris jeffrey at osafoundation.org
Fri Aug 11 14:58:14 PDT 2006


Hi Bear,

> One that John (I think) didn't mention is that because the command mode 
> is triggered by /mail or /note that means I would have to escape the / 
> to search on it - which for a novice user may be very confusing the 
> first time they "discover" that feature.

I'm not sure that's true.  Certainly you'd have to escape "/mail" or any 
other command, but unrecognized commands could (and probably should) be 
interpreted as normal strings for whatever the current default command is.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey


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