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> On 01/29/2012 03:16 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > "emacs" seems to me that it is used for mainframe programming editors, > not word processors. You can do lots of things with emacs. It´s not at all limited to the programming of mainframes. > Well I got spoiled after all those years on a dumb terminal or typing > punch cards. I prefer a "window" environment like GNOME2 gives you > over Terminal use that works a lot like what I had to do with the > mainframes I worked on. Everyone their own :) I´m using the combination of both by running the programs I want in a "window environment". It´s just easier this way than running them on a console and switching over to the GUI when needed. You can have emacs in a terminal or with its own frames (i. e. windows) or both. You might try, though I guess you won´t like it. > So the question is what you are doing for the typing? For almost all the typing I do, I´m far better off with a text editor than with an office package like LO. If it really comes to "WYSIWYG", I wish I had a decent DTP program rather than only LO --- and Scribus doesn´t cut it because you can´t reasonably place objects on a page in such a way that they are aligned. I don´t really have need/use for an office package like LO other than one or the other occasional "odd" thing like a spreadsheet or a text that needs the kind of formatting easily done with its writer --- and the database part of LO is, unfortunately, worlds behind of what MS Access offered years ago. > I know that if you have had years worth of finger-memory for using the > keyboard shortcuts, that is is hard to get use to using the mouse/menu > option and the word processor's internal shortcuts Using a mouse or a menu is an interruption to me unless I´m actually doing something "graphically". I´m not writing with a mouse or a menu. I´m not drawing pictures with the keyboard. I´m not so much visually orientated that I would memorise loads of icons, and I´m not using them because I never know what they mean: This makes these icon bars so many GUI applications have a total waste of screen space, and it´s usually not easy to just turn them off. Using a GUI can be rather straining on me because everything looks the same and it´s very difficult to figure out what is what --- it´s hard to explain if you don´t experience it yourself. There are just many things that can be done easier and/or more efficiently with the keyboard and another many things that can be done easier and/or more efficient with a GUI. > like Ctrl-Alt-f to open the Find/Replace option[s] or Ctrl-A for > select all. I do not remember these shortcuts much. Each package > seems to have their own definations beyond Ctrl-x, -c, and -v. Some > change Ctrl-c and -z as well. Yeah, indeed. That´s another thing that makes these GUI applications so awkward to use: You are forced to use the mouse, and for many things, I don´t like that because it´s so interrupting, slows everything down and makes it more difficult and straining. And LO still isn´t advanced enough that you can have scroll bars on the left side where they belong and not on the right side, and copy and paste doesn´t work right. Emacs and xterm and other apps do it just fine ... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
