Design requirements for more flexible structured editors from a study of programmers' text editing Export

@inproceedings{koEtAl2005:editing, abstract = {A detailed study of Java programmers' text editing found that the full flexibility of unstructured text was not utilized for the vast majority of programmers' character-level edits. Rather, programmers used a small set of editing patterns to achieve their modifications, which accounted for all of the edits observed in the study. About two-thirds of the edits were of name and list structures and most edits preserved structure except for temporary omissions of delimiters. These findings inform the design of a new class of more flexible structured program editors that may avoid well-known usability problems of traditional structured editors, while providing more sophisticated support such as more universal code completion and smarter copy and paste.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ko, Andrew J. and Aung, Htet H. and Myers, Brad A.}, booktitle = {CHI '05: CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {984681}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1056808.1056965}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1056965}, doi = {10.1145/1056808.1056965}, isbn = {1-59593-002-7}, keywords = {debugging, programming}, location = {Portland, OR, USA}, pages = {1557--1560}, posted-at = {2008-05-22 19:01:59}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Design requirements for more flexible structured editors from a study of programmers' text editing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1056965}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - koEtAl2005:editing L3 - citeulike-article-id:984681 N2 - A detailed study of Java programmers' text editing found that the full flexibility of unstructured text was not utilized for the vast majority of programmers' character-level edits. Rather, programmers used a small set of editing patterns to achieve their modifications, which accounted for all of the edits observed in the study. About two-thirds of the edits were of name and list structures and most edits preserved structure except for temporary omissions of delimiters. These findings inform the design of a new class of more flexible structured program editors that may avoid well-known usability problems of traditional structured editors, while providing more sophisticated support such as more universal code completion and smarter copy and paste. CY - Portland, OR, USA SN - 1-59593-002-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1560 TI - Design requirements for more flexible structured editors from a study of programmers' text editing PB - ACM T2 - CHI '05: CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1557 KW - debugging KW - programming AU - Ko, Andrew AU - Aung, Htet AU - Myers, Brad PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1056965 ER -