The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
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The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
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Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#2There's more of this implicit US American bias in modern computing than you would think after the whole ASCII/Unicode mess - I thought they finally learnt something about computers actually being used by other people back then, but no.
One of my pet peeves: Badly implemented "press CTRL + / to search". Entering an actual slash, which requires e.g. SHIFT+7 on German keyboards, won't open the search box, but pressing the key where American layouts have a slash will.
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#3Personally I like auto suggestions like this, but I never want it to interrupt typing, so it should never grab input when you press typing-related keyboard keys, including the enter key, space and arrow keys which you need to move the cursor around.
I do not want to have to close boxes that appear at arbitrary times with the esc key to continue regular typing, since the box interrupts flow and there is a reaction time between seeing the box and closing it with esc.
It would be ok to me if you have to use another less regularly used key, e.g. tab or ctrl+space, first to get into the suggestion box and then use arrows to select one.
This applies also (especially in fact) in code editors, chrome devtools, etc...
I wish others felt the same so this feature would be implemented in a less interrupting way by default. I've never seen it implemented in a non-interrupting way in anything ever.
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#4It's the same with Gitlab issues and comments and it's a small but very real pain.
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#5There's more of this implicit US American bias in modern computing than you would think after the whole ASCII/Unicode mess - I thought they finally learnt something about computers actually being used by other people back then, but no. One of my pet peeves: Badly implemented "press CTRL + / to search". Entering an actual slash, which requires e.g. SHIFT+7 on German keyboards, won't open the search box, but pressing t…
Stuff like this is super, super common. Even where you have things like CTRL + X/C/V for cut/copy/paste it's clear that the letters were picked to be near each other - but then often the shortcuts will remain the same even on keyboards where those keys are nowhere near each other.
This can be one of the reasons that switching to Dvorak can be super hard, all the shortcuts become quite weird unless you remap them each by hand.
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#6It's the same with Gitlab issues and comments and it's a small but very real pain.
Same for Github as well.
Super annoying when you're in the middle of an issue
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#7There's more of this implicit US American bias in modern computing than you would think after the whole ASCII/Unicode mess - I thought they finally learnt something about computers actually being used by other people back then, but no. One of my pet peeves: Badly implemented "press CTRL + / to search". Entering an actual slash, which requires e.g. SHIFT+7 on German keyboards, won't open the search box, but pressing t…
Every small indie game ever: action buttons are x and z.
Guess what, y and z are swapped on a German keyboard.
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#8There's more of this implicit US American bias in modern computing than you would think after the whole ASCII/Unicode mess - I thought they finally learnt something about computers actually being used by other people back then, but no. One of my pet peeves: Badly implemented "press CTRL + / to search". Entering an actual slash, which requires e.g. SHIFT+7 on German keyboards, won't open the search box, but pressing t…
That might a problem with a specific website, but you can easily implement that correctly using the event key property[1].
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#9There's more of this implicit US American bias in modern computing than you would think after the whole ASCII/Unicode mess - I thought they finally learnt something about computers actually being used by other people back then, but no. One of my pet peeves: Badly implemented "press CTRL + / to search". Entering an actual slash, which requires e.g. SHIFT+7 on German keyboards, won't open the search box, but pressing t…
My latest peeve here is the websites that try to filter out non-numeric key presses in form fields. You don’t know where my number keys are! Sometimes the only way to enter a number is to copy and paste it from a text editor.
Re: The plague of emoji insertion in French docs
#10I think the title should say "in French *Google docs." As is, it seems like French code documentation/papers are littered with emojis?