No error messages

  • Here’s a major problem you have. First, understand Nielson’s 10 heuristics. If you have any sort of recognizable CS degree, just ignore that, as you probably already covered them.

    The problem with your plugin lies in error messages. If a user attempts an edit on a file, saves the edit and no edit is actually made to the file, an error message should show to explain what happened and what the next steps are. This is Nielson’s 9th heuristic, “help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors”.

    Neat plugin idea otherwise, nice work. Just nail your UX.

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  • Plugin Author Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hiya, and thanks for the feedback!

    I am unfortunately painfully aware that my error messages are not always ideal, they are (or the lack of, as it would be) one of my weaker sides when it comes to coding. I am gradually improving them over time as I see new needs, and I am more than open to suggestions of where you’ve seen a lack of them (I’ve made note of the unsuccessful file write missing one though) so that the UX can be improved overall, so thank you again!

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