From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: 24 Jun 2003 19:05:28 -0400 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5l1xxj6pqf.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <5lu1aqcev2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84n0git5vn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84r85ry9ft.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84vfv2ulf7.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84wufgke19.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <5ly8zw7hah.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <7TAJa.738$eG1.8604@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <5ln0g87dki.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> <848yrsgd4s.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84fzlzsdj6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <%d4Ka.174$9g2.1046@news-server.bigpond.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056500204 16634 80.91.224.249 (25 Jun 2003 00:16:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 02:16:36 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 19Uxxk-0004Ju-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 02:16:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UxuN-0001Dk-Fb for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:13:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!news.wss.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu Original-X-Trace: news.wss.yale.edu 1056495932 21963 128.36.229.169 (24 Jun 2003 23:05:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.wss.yale.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:05:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 24 Jun 2003 19:05:28 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114705 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.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:11196 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11196 > 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