From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:02:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2693a736-7539-479f-948a-20c9a09f8808@c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> References: <30a09a22-cd05-44b6-9b82-8a7e6c1796d5@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <7bf1883b-3184-487c-a5a4-675f3e117342@l2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <85269090-af0d-43fa-bd49-da265cbac558@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <87fxd1iy86.fsf@iki.fi> <6a088d78-bfa1-46aa-bf87-6efe4d875739@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <874oth3se0.fsf@iki.fi> <76036640-c499-482c-81c0-9e0cb325e96a@k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87r5wk3o87.fsf@iki.fi> <87vdlwloau.fsf@mundaneum.com> <97a8ff74-599a-49f2-914f-acc11547022a@n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <873a8zgp7x.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247604304 30687 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 20:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 22:44:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQoru-0007BH-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:44:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50176 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQort-0007vn-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:44:54 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.235.205.153 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247601725 21810 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2009 20:02:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:02:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.235.205.153; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061118 Fedora/3.0.11-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170880 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66075 Archived-At: On 14 juil, 19:16, pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Francis Moreau writes: > > But the main problem I think, which is a different issue, is why the > > hell Emacs has 2 functionalities that do 'basically' the same thing ?! > > Two? I know at least three! =A0M-x terminal is yet another. > > As for mail UA, there are at least four (gnus, rmail, vm, mew), and > probably many more. > > > Why can't it offer one and only one package that give the best of the > > 2 worlds ? > > Because this is not a scarce world. =A0There's nobody to strangle the > offer and make you pay dearly for a few features. =A0There's an > aboundance of coders, and an aboundance of code produced, so you can > choose amongst several options. =A0If you want empty shops, URSS^W North > Korea is that way. > Damn, Monsieur, you're crazy :-)