In the narrow sense, that argument doesn’t fly ever since 1878 and the invention of Shift.
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Replying to @mwichary
disagree. two keys pressed in convention act as a third key. they always produce the same result, like a typographer picking type
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I think I understand what you’re saying, but I’m not quite sure what’s the benefit of strict determinism like this?
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(And I’d argue Shift/Caps Lock make it non-deterministic already. It’s just a different mode than auto-choosing the right quote.)
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the benefit is that there's a tight binding between my mind, my keyboard, and the eventual text produced.
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Replying to @hoverbird @mwichary
my text doesn't change *after my cursor and brain move on to later text*. autocorrect is of course the other big offender here.
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I agree with part of that, although it seems I don’t care for it as strictly as I do.
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On Medium, we have a rule that a typographical replacement should occur as soon as possible when typing.
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For quotation marks, it’s immediate in pretty much all the cases – you don’t ever even see the dumb quote.
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(We serialize paste into a sequence of keystrokes, but don’t show the result until everything’s ready.)
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