From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Niels Freimann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK! Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:55:16 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200303231055.16455.nfreimann@firemail.de> References: <87el4z9t43.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> Reply-To: nfreimann@firemail.de NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048413553 17373 80.91.224.249 (23 Mar 2003 09:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Powe Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 10:59:12 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18x2Fz-0004Vu-00 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:59:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18x2Fg-0000mV-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 04:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18x2EK-0008GA-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 04:57:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18x2Dx-0006nq-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 04:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lmsmtp05.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.115]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18x2DX-0005gL-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 04:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from linux (p5081227D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.129.34.125]) by lmsmtp05.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFA41FB21; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:56:33 +0100 (MET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 In-Reply-To: <87el4z9t43.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7816 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7816 > actually, i doubt it. i'm sure that there are many who, like me, do > the bulk of their editing in -- gasp -- the console. gtk will be > worthless to us emacs was introduced to me in the early 90th by a person who=20 belongs to the developers. What he installed on my machine was=20 X11 emacs. I never saw anybody editing in the console seriousely.=20 Therefore I don't believe that too many of people do editing in the=20 console. This people may use zile or something. I fully subscribe to Miles saying that "I expect that once the GTK version hits prime-time, it will get a lot more maintenance attention than the other versions " Furthermore I expect that, when the GTKversion hits prime-time,=20 the developers will remove all the anachronistic xlib and motif=20 code for the reason of a much slimmer code which will be=20 much more open to the community for maintenance. -Niels