On Mon, 31-Aug-2009 at 08:25PM +1000, Jim Lemon wrote: [...]
|> Hi Liviu, |> I was going to steer clear of this one, as my favorite editor (NEdit) |> has become mildly incompatible with my favorite window manager (KDE) on |> my favorite operating system (Linux) and I have sadly taken to using |> KWrite, hoping that things will get better. Still, one must not get |> stuck in a rut, so I decided to download Emacs and try it again. Twenty |> four megabytes poorer, I find that things are much the same. Emacs still |> has that annoying trait of being determinedly incompatible with anything |> else, even if the conventions are quite sensible. Thus most of my |> keyboard shortcuts that I use all the time just don't work. Do I want to |> learn Emacs shortcuts so that I will hit the wrong key shortcuts on all |> my other applications? I sympathize. I prefer the keyboard shortcuts that WordStar used. The "diamond" was so intuitive. However, even though I could have configured Emacs to use the WordStar diamond, I noticed that strange and all as it is, the Emacs shortcut system is vastly more extensive and adaptable. Now I rarely think of WordStar. Because they're so utterly different from what ordinary software uses, I don't find much confusion on the occasions where I use said ordinary software. One tends not to get German vocabulary confused with Chinese vocab. I think it will be a very long time before Emacs follows the mob, and if it does, many of us will want an option to use the strange old system. -- Patrick Connolly Plant & Food Research Mt Albert Auckland New Zealand ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ I have the world`s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you`ve seen it. ---Steven Wright ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.