2020/08/13 by Nicolas P. Rougier, Rougier, Nicolas P. · 9 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Design Education and Practice #Interactive and Immersive Displays #Usability and User Interface Design #cs.HC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2008.06030
openalex publication_date 2020/08/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Text editors are written by and for developers. They come with a large set of default and implicit choices in terms of layout, typography, colorization and interaction that hardly change from one editor to the other. It is not clear if these implicit choices derive from the ignorance of alternatives or if they derive from developers' habits, reproducing what they are used to. The goal of this article is to characterize these implicit choices and to illustrate what are some alternatives without prescribing one or the other.