Structure editors emphasise a natural representation of the underlying tree structure of a program, often using a clearly identifiable 1-to-1 mapping between syntax tree elements and on-screen artefacts. This paper presents layout and behaviour principles for structure editors and a new structure editor for Lisp. The evaluation of the editor's usability reveals an interesting mismatch. Whereas by far most participants of a questionnaire intuitively favour the structure editor to the textual editor, objective improvements are measurable, yet not significant. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.
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Gomolka, A., & Humm, B. (2013). Structure editors: Old hat or future vision? In Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 275, pp. 82–97). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32341-6_6
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