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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: simple editor required
Date: 24 Jun 2003 19:05:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5l1xxj6pqf.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: %d4Ka.174$9g2.1046@news-server.bigpond.net.au

> Thanks for agreeing!  What's more surprising is that 10%
> of the user base didn't report this 10 years ago, and thus
> was fixed years before I they installed 20.7.1 on this box.

It's probably because most users actually like to use the tool
in the way it was intended to work rather than work hard to
use it in a different way and then be surprised that it doesn't
do what they want.

> I am mostly using text mode to write C code.

No wonder it doesn't work well.  Try to use tar-mode to edit those
C files and you'll have even more fun ;-)


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.7519.1054976930.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-07 10:19 ` simple editor required Paul Edwards
2003-06-07 10:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-07 11:19   ` lawrence mitchell
2003-06-07 12:35     ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-10 13:40     ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-10 14:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-11  9:23         ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-10 17:10       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-11  9:18         ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-11 11:38           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-11 14:47           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-12 10:55             ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-12 11:24               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-12 12:51                 ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-12 13:35                   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-16 10:31                     ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-16 10:47                       ` Sam Halliday
2003-06-17 13:57                         ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-17 16:31                           ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-16 13:14                       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-16 13:48                       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-16 15:10                         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-17 14:05                           ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-17 16:14                             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-17 22:58                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-18  9:53                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-17 16:32                             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-18  9:48                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-18 10:19                                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-19 10:26                                   ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-19 15:38                                     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-20 10:13                                       ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-20 14:40                                         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-20 16:19                                           ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-20 18:08                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-23 10:45                                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-23 20:18                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]                                                   ` <cNKJa.34$g_1.1140@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
     [not found]                                                     ` <848yrsgd4s.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]                                                       ` <RPWJa.1093$g_1.9591@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
2003-06-24 15:25                                                         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-24 22:26                                                           ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-24 23:05                                                             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-06-25  7:51                                                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-25  6:17                                                             ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]                                                             ` <843chyfzpp.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de >
     [not found]                                                               ` <tscKa.709$9g2.6501@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
2003-06-25 16:48                                                                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-30  9:58                                                                 ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-20 20:52                                             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-23 10:46                                           ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-23 13:45                                             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-23 22:55                                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-24  7:16                                                 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-17 16:33                             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-18  9:49                               ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-17 16:58                             ` Kevin Dziulko
2003-06-19 16:03                             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-17 13:59                         ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-17 16:06                           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-18  9:50                             ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-18 10:18                               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-19 10:32                                 ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-19 19:32                                   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-20  9:58                                     ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-18 18:46                               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-12 16:03               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-07 15:06   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-07 16:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <mailman.8100.1055869193.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-17 22:53 ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-17 22:56   ` David Kastrup
2003-06-17 23:04     ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-18  7:26   ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found] <mailman.7691.1055299124.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-11  2:57 ` Johan Bockgård
2003-06-11 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.7200.1054643007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-03 13:51 ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-03 14:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-11  1:53     ` Ben Key
2003-06-11 15:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-03 15:06   ` Peter Lee
2003-06-03 15:39   ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-03 18:22   ` kgold
2003-06-03 20:13   ` Jon Kåre Hellan
2003-06-05 17:12   ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-06  6:15     ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-06 11:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-06 18:00       ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]       ` <mailman.7492.1054922593.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-06 20:12         ` Peter Lee
2003-06-07  1:36           ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]           ` <mailman.7510.1054949869.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-07  2:44             ` Peter Lee
2003-06-09 20:54           ` David Masterson
2003-06-11 21:03           ` kgold
2003-06-11 22:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.7746.1055369497.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-12  0:28               ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-06-12  1:05                 ` Kin Cho
2003-06-12  4:05                   ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-06-12  7:11                     ` Kin Cho
2003-06-12 16:23                       ` Peter Lee
2003-06-12 19:37                       ` Benjamin Rutt
2003-06-12  4:55             ` Galen Boyer
2003-06-12  7:18               ` Kin Cho
2003-06-07  3:43         ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-07  9:28           ` Stein A. Stromme
     [not found]       ` <mailman.7449.1054900407.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-07  3:49         ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-07  9:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-08 10:19       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-03 11:27 Dmitri.Minaev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-03 10:46 Paul Edwards
2003-06-03 12:19 ` Kevin Dziulko
2003-06-03 15:12 ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-06-03 23:22   ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-04 12:57     ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-06-05 14:10       ` Paul Edwards
2003-06-05 17:08     ` Kai Großjohann

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