> The macro solution send you down the path of having to memorize context specific commands and say a whole lot of words to get a small effect. The macros that

> The macro solution send you down the path of having to memorize context specific commands and say a whole lot of words to get a small effect. The macros that I'm talking about are exactly the opposite - you say a small number of words to produce a large effect (or, however much effect you programmed into them), e.g. when you define an Emacs function. What macros are you talking about? > btw, small pushback. The way we use tools and programs is not abnormal. The vast majority of people do not use speech interfaces to tools and programs, so this use is abnormal by definition - abnormal means "outside of the norm" and this is very much outside of the norm. > Your comment shows just how much judgment people have when a user violates a designers UI vision or perceived physical norms. No, it does not. "Abnormal" is not a judgement or a negative term - it literally just means "several standard deviations from the mean" (for some value of "several") - you can describe someone having "abnormal intelligence" (and the connotation with that phrase is almost universally positive). Don't read negative meaning into other peoples' comments where it doesn't exist. > If a user can't make use of the UI provided, it's not the users fault, that belong squarely on the UI developer. I'm not assigning fault to the user. You're assuming things here also.