From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "William Shieh" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs vs vs.net Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:13:43 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067393971 23246 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 02:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 03:19:28 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEfvk-0001na-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:19:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEfu7-0008WB-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:17:47 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: andreaj4.redmond.corp.microsoft.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: andreaj4.redmond.corp.microsoft.com Original-X-Trace: news.microsoft.com 1067393622 157.56.67.31 (28 Oct 2003 18:13:42 -0700) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!pd7cy1no!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!sea-feed.news.verio.net!news.microsoft.com!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117663 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13595 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13595 hi, i'm very new to email and the system i'm using most of the time is win32. could someone give me some example why emacs is so powerful? from what i could see is that it takes more key to do a simple copy and paste than notepad. i know notepad is probably not a good example, however, can anyone give me a good reason why you use emacs instead of vs.net from ms? thanks, gs