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

[Mike Taylor]

On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

> 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.

sure - you would only have to escape those items that are command 
triggers, but if the text area is primarily labeled "search" a new user 
would be very confused to find the search for "/mail" (expecting to hit 
items like with "/mail" in it) to suddenly cause a new message to 
appear.

after reading the other replies I now see that the text area is 
supposed to be a command area in which search is but one part of it's 
duty - that to me makes a world of difference as the user goes into the 
task knowing what context is required.

---
Bear

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