Tools
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In reply to:
Re: Global changes to location names
Bob Hunt 8/24/08
> if we can really use a tool, it can be put in there!
You raise a philosophical point.
It can, but should it? Would people pay for it? Would the extra expense be justified by extra use?
When my daughters were Girl Scouts I was an Assistant Troop Leader. We took the troop backpacking. I’d backpacked since I was 14, so some of the parents would look upon me as a sage. The first thing they all wanted was a pocketknife. I used to recommend the Swiss Army “Camper” to teens and adults and the 4-blade Girl Scout knife for the girls. One over-achiever bought the top-of-the-line Swiss Army model (with 40+ blades) for his daughter. It was so wide that she had trouble handling it, and he paid for blades she would never use.
For backpacking, IMHO, the “Camper” has most of what you need, is cheap enough you can carry one in your pants pocket and have a spare tucked into the bottom of your backpack, is small enough for a 10-year old to handle and doesn’t weigh you down. It is the ideal compromise between size, weight, cost and utility. All the blades are useful, although when we went backpacking with the Girl Scouts we only used the corkscrew to loosen knots in thin cord.
I carry my “Camper” in my jeans when I work around the house on weekends. If I need a socket wrench, I go and get it; I don’t buy a pocketknife that has one.
FOW has a basic search-and-replace and a spell checker. RM has formatting as well (Bold, italic, underlining.) Those are the only text-editing “blades” that a genealogy program needs, in my opinion.