PT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:01:19 +0100: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:16:24 +0100, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Emacs has not shown itself to accommodate systematic corporate >> involvement well. It will as far as I can see always be dependent on >> dedicated individuals instead of corporate support, simply because you >> can't make a business plan involving Emacs development and timelines. > I see. In that case there really is no obvious benefit of devoting > development resources to make Emacs more user friendly. > BTW, it seems in the corporate world Eclipse will fill this space > instead of Emacs. It's a self described "universal tool platform - an > open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular". When a > newbie tells me he gave up on Emacs because is to alien I usually tell > them to use Eclipse instead. And they usually are happy, because it's > nice, shiny and point-and-clicky. :) Like David, I've neither seen nor used Eclipse. You describe it as "point-and-clicky". I cannot use point-and-clicky interfaces when I'm dealing with text - the mouse movements on the screen distract me too much from the text I'm dealing with. Thus I need Emacs's facility of being fully usable without the mouse. Is Eclipse also fully usable without a mouse? -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
