From: "Amelia A Lewis" <>
> I am *so* in agreement with Elliotte here. Although I would extend it
> beyond XML editors; I absolutely cannot use any programming language
> editor that does auto-completion, if it can't be disabled. And I think
> that *that* is a great principle for any editor--don't do *anything* to my
> damned document (whether it's narrative or structural) unless I *ask* you
> to, thank you very much.
>
Heh, I call it the Office-Assistant-Syndrome. Microsoft loves to make their
applications try to think for you, particularly later versions of an App.
Personally, I don't mind any "feature", as long as I can turn it off.
Nothing gives me more satisfaction than to watch that annoying paperclip
disappear for good.
I do hate though when a lot of features bloat the application so much that
no matter how many features are turned off, it still takes forever to load
(forever=relative-computer-time, i.e. about 10 seconds or more). I hated
dbl-clicking a 10kb XML document and wait the immense load time before
finally XMLSpy came up.
-BKN
