Hello, the Bat! list recipients,
Tuesday, January 11, 2000, Steve Lamb wrote to Oleg Zalyalov about
suggestion- / wish-list:
SL> Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 12:44:38 AM, Oleg wrote:
>> There is editing and editing. When people will realize that editing message,
>> editing program, editing HTML, editing presentation, editing newspaper are
>> different tasks, they will not want one editor for everything.
SL> I do realize they are different tasks. I also realize that the underlying
SL> concept to most of those is this: ASCII text.
Why do carpenters need other tools than bench axe? Underlying concept
to most of those is the same: wood.
SL> When I am editing news, mail, programming, writing poetry, changing my
SL> configuration, whatever I am simply editing ASCII text. My editor changes
SL> itself to become appropriate for the task at hand.
SL> When programming vim highlights the keywords, variables, operators and
SL> such differently. The same block of text in an email message wouldn't be
SL> highlighted... Unless it was a quote or in someone's sig in which case it
SL> would be highlighted as a quote or a sig.
When programming I use language-specific templates I don't need to
know of when I am editing news or mail or writing poerty. I also need
project management and so on. When I write a book I will need heavy
word processing including cross-references and so on. I don't need
bloated do-everything editor where I will have to use Ctrl-Alt-Shift
combinations alot because simple keys are occupied by functions which
I will never need for my current task.
SL> Quick templates are nothing more than imported text with replacement of
SL> macros. That can be achieved several different ways.
How?
SL> When will people realize it is better to use one editor when the
SL> underlying data is the same (ASCII text) so you only need to learn one set of
SL> commands and capabilities and then demand that the *EDITOR* change look and
SL> feel to fit the task at hand than to have multiple editors with multiple
SL> interfaces, multiple capabilities, multiple command sets and constantly asking
SL> a dozen or so different authors to reimplement feature X from editor Y in
SL> editor Z because they find it useful?
Never, because it is not underlying data defines the way people handle
it but the purpose of editing. Just discussed this regarding mail and
news management here.
BTW, what is scoring?
And you didn't answer the main my question: how will TB! know that I'm
done with editing new message with my favorite editor if I have three
more files open with it and don't want to close it?
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Best regards,
Oleg Zalyalov. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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