As a programmer myself I can see the benefit of giving people these little features that pop up and try to help, however I'd like to think that I'm smart enough to take a hint. If someone closes my window, I'll assume they didn't want. It seems logical enough to me, as it is logical to many I'm sure. Why is it that programmers then assume that because you lacked a response or because you closed their window that you must want it open again and in your way?
It certainly irks me when programmers make such assumptions, more specifically in this case (the case that caused me to feel the urge to bitch) a word processor felt the need to "bullet" a single line of text I was writing every. single. time. no matter how many times I undid it simply because I wanted to start the line with an Astrix (*). Now tell me, is that such a horrible thing for me to want to do? Why aren't I allowed to do that? The instant I try and hit enter to start a whole new line not related to a list in anyway the program assumes I wanted bullets and converts my * into a bullet dot and ties to make my next line part of the bullets.
If I wanted bullets: I'd bloody turn them on myself. Why do you have to be so "helpful" and do it for me? Sure, shortcuts okay so I can turn it off right? Sure. You just have to turn off spellchecker along with it. Huh? Why?
Seems the programmers, along with assuming any appearance of * means "THEY WANT BULLETS NOOOOOWW!!" felt that the change of * to bullets fell into the category of spellchecker and in order to stop their auto correcting bullshit I have to turn off their non-auto red squiggly line (standard) spellchecker.
Gah! Programmers annoy me, and I'm one of them. (Though hopefully I don't annoy you)
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