On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:46:02 +0900, you wrote: >On 6/22/05, John S. Yates, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> They experience it instead as a confidence building >> feature > >Who's this "they"?
My bad. Earlier I wrote "... in the CUA world ...". The unclear "they" was meant to refer to those working primarily with GUI applications conforming to some variant of CUA, be it MS Windows Mac OS or some X-based desktop. Also, I must confess that, after posting from home this morning my earlier note, on my drive into work I realized I was only one half correct in my description of the Emacs / CUA clash. That is my description of the mismatch between file-open and traditional CUA Open.. was more or less correct. The clash between file-open and New.. is the fact that file-open always inspects the directory and alters its behavior based on whether the requested filename exists. Thus file-open always establishes early the name under which a user's buffer will be saved. CUA New.. by contrast creates a new document associated with a mechanically generated vacuous filename, guaranteed to be unique. The user then supplies the desired filename later via the SaveAs.. operation. /john _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
