Customize · Who? · it remembers
Element 21
Tell it how to behave for you.
preferences · settings · themes
First known
Opened
1969DWIM (BBN-LISP): each user sets a confidence level that decides whether it fixes your typos alone or asks first. Warren Teitelman, BBN.
See also: Interlisp's DWIM[C] (cautious: asks) versus DWIM[T] (trusting: corrects alone), which sets approveflg; DECUS Interlisp manual ch. 17, whose sample session is dated 11-17-73.
“each different user may want to operate with a different 'confidence factor,' ... a parameter which indicates how sure DWIM must be before making a correction without approval.”
Above a 'user-established level', DWIM makes the correction and goes on; below it, DWIM asks first.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
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Specimen № 21 — operate freely
Tap a temperature, a time or a bell on your phone. Watch both phones.
Fig. 21 — Customize
000 readings · idle
Down the Customize column
Read down and Customize gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Customize takes.
- preferences
- settings
- themes