From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs: a 21st century text-editor
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:14:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c52423$Blat.v2.4$e4912560@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422E0532.13774.47E771@localhost> (chris.tipper@gmail.com)
> From: "Christopher G D Tipper" <chris.tipper@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:04:02 -0000
>
> 1 Text-wrapping. Text wrapping is a limitation, and it would be nice
> to scroll past the edge of the screen. This is particularly acute in
> my case editing XSLT scripts where line-breaks become a
> presentational issue. Sometimes I actually need to compose documents
> with 250 columns, and I don't appreciate emacs telling me otherwise.
I'm not sure I understand what is your complaint here: would setting
truncate-lines and/or truncate-partial-width-windows to non-nil do
what you want? If not, why not?
> 2 Shell open. Emacs really ought to be able recognise when the shell
> is requesting it to open a file. Gnu-client should be unnecessary in
> a modern application.
Can you suggest a more-or-less portable interface that Emacs can use
to implement such a feature?
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by ``shell is requesting to open a
file'' -- can you give an example?
> 3 Tabbed buffers. Open buffers should be easily visible in a tabbed
> layout below the menu, in the manner of XEmacs. A proper history
> list would help here so that documents are persistent across
> sessions.
desktop.el gives you the latter of the two features.
> 4 File Dialogs. I use dlgopen.el on Windows, which gets rid of the
> most serious interface issue of all, the lack of modern file
> dialogs.
Again, I don't understand: Emacs already uses file dialogs (the ones
provided by the toolkit used to build Emacs) when you invoke find-file
via a mouse click (e.g., File->Open from the menu bar). What is
exactly the problem here?
> 5 Paste replaces edit. This idea that when I paste I end up with both
> the replacement text and the old text does not belong in the modern
> idiom.
delete-selection-mode will give you this, I think.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 20:04 Emacs: a 21st century text-editor Christopher G D Tipper
2005-03-08 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2005-03-08 20:42 ` Ulrich Hobelmann
2005-03-09 5:22 ` Gaetan Leurent
2005-03-09 9:32 ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-10 20:01 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2005-03-11 20:28 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-15 0:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
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