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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that depends. If i just wanna sift through them all and get an 
overview of hide versus show, just searching for "visible" will make me 
able to read the status of them all.

Anyway, these are very specific cases, but i think tokens with a state 
are both more extendable and more consistent in general.

On 09/18/2017 04:44 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 9/18/2017 10:36 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> > On 09/18/2017 03:27 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >
> > > It implies the text field is visible.  No token, implies not visible.
> > > I'm not opposed to using show/hide.  I would rather a single token than
> > > a token with a state (visible yes/no) which is more verbose with no
> > > improvement in readability.
> >
> > I disagree here though, having a (visible no), makes me able to search
> > for invisible units much more easily. I think that having the navigation
> > aspect in mind when discussing readability is good.
>
> I would think "hide" would be a far easier search string to type than
> "visible no".
>
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 -Kristoffer