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> "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
>
>> David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) wrote:
>>
>>    I was giving an example for a user interface.  What Emacs has 
>> nowadays
>>    does not really deserve that name.
>>
>> But that particular kind of user interface is not the only kind that
>> exists.  Emacs provides two excellent user interfaces.
>
> No.  It provides an interface to the functionality, but "user
> interface" implies something more than just the capability to manually
> edit some configuration files.  Even if the format of the
> configuration files can be found in "user documentation".

Do you mean "Graphical user interface" when you are saying "user 
interface"?
If so, what you say makes some sense.


	Jan D.