Hi Twisted,
>>>>> "Twisted" == Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Twisted> That's entirely orthogonal to the issue of interface learning
curve OR
Twisted> interface ease-of-use. Emacs has deficiencies in both areas, if
Twisted> principally the former. (For an example of the latter, consider
Twisted> opening a file. Can't remember the exact spelling and
capitalization
Twisted> of the file name? Sorry, bud, you're SOL.
Wrong, ever heard about input completion?
Twisted> Go find it in some other app
Twisted> and memorize the name, then return to emacs.
Wrong. Do you know dired?
For even more ease of use use someting like ido, or icicles. It
runs rings about Editors like Notepad.
Twisted> Now THAT is what I call
Twisted> disruptive context switching. Meanwhile even the lowly Notepad
Twisted> responds to "open" by displaying a list of text files and tools to
Twisted> navigate the folder hierarchy without having to do it blind, while
Twisted> still letting you blind-type a path if you remember it. And you can
Twisted> also paste the path in from the clipboard.
You can do so in emacs as well.
Twisted> Unix systems don't even
Twisted> *have* a proper system-wide clipboard and copy/paste capability.
Under
Twisted> X there's a weak, text-only imitation, which doesn't help you much
Twisted> when you want to copy a selection from an image in a paint program
and
Twisted> paste it into a CAD or web-design or specialized image-manipulation
Twisted> tool or whatever...you have to save it to a file and load it,
which is
Twisted> a pain in the butt and slowly clutters your hard drive with
Twisted> "temporary" files you occasionally forget to delete.
You obviously have no clue about working under Unix either.
'Andreas
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