From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK! Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:23:29 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84znmohwwe.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <87vfyai2ur.fsf@wassern.consult-meyers.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050665838 735 80.91.224.249 (18 Apr 2003 11:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 18 13:37:10 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 196UB3-0000BK-00 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 196U5l-0004yW-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:31:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f1d9.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f1d9.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.241.217) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1050665140 3239523 217.81.241.217 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:77qO8vqNXx8NkiHjbORaUFKnlDE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112091 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:8590 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8590 Niels Freimann writes: > I am running emacs -nw as an perfect vi replacement. > Therefore there is only one text editor, emacs, on my > machine. However I don't believe that in the year 2003 > when most users running linux on fast ia32 machines a tty > emacs is the future. Its rather a *nostalgia* for older users > like we are. Furthermore my argument was removing > anything else than gtk2 as X11 target, and creating two > separate branches for tty and gtk2, sharing common code > via libraries. An tty and an gtk2 emacs thats enough. > Otherwise the code base will become too large. What's the point in having two programs that share 99% of their source code? It's like suggesting to split Linux into two versions, one for the masses with IDE drives, and another for a few die-hards with SCSI drives. IMHO, it doesn't make any sense at all. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)