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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "like other editors" [
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:39:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8A1D72.4010106@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xdsjnajc5o.fsf@news.eternal-september.org>

On 10/03/2011 12:02 PM Richard Riley wrote:
> ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> 
>> On 10/03/2011 09:41 AM Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:18:11 -0400
>>> ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Secondly, there are places in the world where people haven't ever
>>>> used Windows; instead, their first and only experience with computers
>>>> is with Linux.  What sense can it make to them that emacs' behavior
>>>> is changed simply to mimic some other editor they've never seen or
>>>> used?
>>> You wrongly assumed by modern editors I was talking about Windows
>>> editors[1], 
>> No, I wasn't assuming you were talking about Word.  Since you didn't say which
>> editor you were talking about, I just picked Word as a foil.  If you re-read my
>> post, you'll see on my first reference to Word I preceded it by "e.g.", implying
>> the same thereafter.
> 
> Dont you feel using Word (Windows only non programmers editor) was a
> little far fetched considering the plethora of cross platform
> programmers editors including and not limited to emacs and vi? Never
> mind eclipse etc as well as all the FOSS Gnu/Linux stuff like gedit etc?

You're missing the point entirely.  Re-read my original post in this thread.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2011-09-30  3:42 ` Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete Richard Stallman
2011-09-30  8:56   ` Memnon Anon
2011-09-30 11:36   ` Jai Dayal
2011-09-30 15:17   ` Joel James Adamson
2011-10-01 12:54     ` Le Wang
2011-10-03 15:25       ` Joel James Adamson
2011-10-03  5:57   ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03  9:21     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-03 15:14       ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03 20:57         ` Martyn Jago
2011-10-03 17:18       ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03 18:53         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-03  7:33   ` Suvayu Ali
2011-10-03 13:18     ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] ken
2011-10-03 13:24       ` Jai Dayal
2011-10-03 14:47         ` Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03 13:41       ` Suvayu Ali
2011-10-03 15:17         ` ken
2011-10-03 16:02           ` "like other editors" [ Richard Riley
2011-10-03 20:39             ` ken [this message]
2011-10-03 15:35         ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] Andreas Röhler
2011-10-03 16:01         ` "like other editors" [ Richard Riley
2011-10-03 16:00       ` Richard Riley
2011-10-03 17:45         ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-03 19:27           ` Rasmus
2011-10-03 21:30         ` ken
2011-10-03 16:22       ` "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 12:37         ` ken
2011-10-04 22:09           ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 12:44         ` ken
2011-10-04 18:40           ` Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 20:02             ` ken
2011-10-04 20:19               ` Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04 21:42                 ` ken
2011-10-04 21:54                   ` Jai Dayal
2011-10-05  0:35                   ` Jeremiah Dodds
2011-10-04  1:54       ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]       ` <mailman.5071.1317713524.939.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-10-04 13:12         ` rusi
2011-10-04 17:27       ` S Boucher
2011-10-05 14:30         ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-05 16:02           ` Rustom Mody
2011-10-05 17:26         ` MBR
2011-10-05 17:51           ` S Boucher
2011-10-04  4:28   ` Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete MBR
2011-10-04  7:33     ` suvayu ali
2011-10-04 14:08       ` MBR
2011-10-04 14:40         ` suvayu ali
2011-10-04 11:39     ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-10-04 13:31       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 11:47   ` Jonathan Groll
2011-10-04 13:33     ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 16:17       ` Ian Zimmerman
2011-10-04 16:36         ` Drew Adams
2011-10-04 17:38   ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 18:29     ` Alan E. Davis
2011-10-04 19:16       ` S Boucher
2011-10-04 19:11   ` Johnny
2011-10-05  1:04   ` Ludwig, Mark
2011-10-06 12:24     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-10-06 19:15   ` Ken Goldman
2011-10-06 19:52     ` Marko Vojinovic
2011-10-18  8:09   ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-13  4:24   ` semperos
2011-10-05  3:46 "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Rustom Mody
2011-10-05  4:04 ` "like other editors" Ian Zimmerman
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2011-10-12  8:04 ""like other editors" [" Rustom Mody

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