From: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: emacs-w3m question
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:36:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ws1q95a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811031125.mA3BPPZu024539@zogzog.maillard.mobi> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:25:25 +0100")
Dear Xavier,
Xavier> What's more, directional keys are one of the dumbest addition
Xavier> one could have thought off (in my opinion). The same apply for
Xavier> numerical keypad: what are they useful for exactly ? Is it that
Xavier> hard to press shift+& (for the azerty keyboard) to get a 1 ? Or
Xavier> press C-b to move point left ? I do not think so.
Xavier> The real reason that comes to mind is lazyness. People do not
Xavier> want to (take time to) learn how to do things, they want to go
Xavier> fast (even if they go fast wrongly). Keyboard (or typing more
Xavier> generally) is just an example, there are so many other applying
Xavier> here...
This sounds sooo much like overstated elitism. You may prefer to use C-b
and C-f and S-&, because you're so good and so l33t, this will never
change the point : beginners don't, period. Default settings must help
those people, who have not yet set their .emacs, to use and try the
software and see if they like it or not.
--
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 20:45 emacs-w3m question Francis Moreau
2008-10-27 21:09 ` henry atting
2008-10-27 21:36 ` Richard Riley
2008-10-28 18:40 ` Xah
2008-10-30 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-10-30 22:16 ` Paul R
2008-11-01 7:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-01 12:59 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.2625.1225539334.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-01 15:51 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-03 11:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-03 12:13 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-03 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2907.1225862955.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-05 13:23 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.2522.1225402310.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-30 22:38 ` Xah
2008-11-03 11:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-03 12:36 ` Paul R [this message]
2008-11-03 23:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2772.1225715774.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-03 13:27 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-04 13:19 ` Chris McMahan
2008-11-04 14:19 ` Richard Riley
2008-11-05 7:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2764.1225711684.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <4d476218-bd76-4d41-8a12-1428dfba9e9b@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
2008-11-05 7:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2966.1225952942.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-06 14:31 ` Xah
2008-11-06 16:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-06 18:12 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-07 1:22 ` Xah
2008-11-07 3:50 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-07 5:42 ` Xah
2008-11-07 7:48 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-11-07 8:07 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.3000.1225988502.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 1:01 ` Xah
2008-11-07 10:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-07 10:29 ` Paul R
2008-11-07 23:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-08 1:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.3052.1226051600.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 17:43 ` Xah
2008-11-08 14:36 ` Is there anyway to save workspace so that we don't have reopen 10s of files again ? Maindoor
2008-11-08 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-08 15:09 ` Maindoor
2008-11-08 16:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-11-08 18:24 ` Saving registers (was: Is there anyway to save workspace so that we don't have reopen 10s of files again ?) Reiner Steib
2008-11-08 22:25 ` Is there anyway to save workspace so that we don't have reopen 10s of files again ? Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-06 18:02 ` emacs-w3m question Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-07 6:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.3010.1225993912.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-06 20:02 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-11-07 2:02 ` Xah
2008-11-07 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-07 10:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.3055.1226054611.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 20:10 ` Xah
2008-11-07 20:12 ` How to make friends. [was emacs-w3m question] Xah
2008-11-07 20:17 ` emacs is not Microsoft Word " Xah
2008-11-10 10:11 ` emacs is not Microsoft Word David Kastrup
2008-11-08 18:57 ` emacs-w3m question Rupert Swarbrick
2008-11-08 21:33 ` Xah
2008-11-09 6:26 ` Wei Weng
2008-11-09 8:55 ` Xah
2008-11-10 21:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.21.1226352538.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-10 22:38 ` Xah
2008-11-11 21:46 ` Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-12 2:28 ` emacs-w3m question Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.106.1226439293.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-12 4:19 ` Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] Xah
2008-11-12 11:28 ` Emacs command frequencies: Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-11-12 11:45 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.129.1226489296.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-12 12:52 ` Sébastien Vauban
2008-11-12 15:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-13 14:33 ` Xah
2008-11-13 4:07 ` Xah
2008-11-12 16:50 ` Emacs command frequencies: [was: emacs-w3m question] rgb
2008-11-13 12:47 ` Xah
2008-11-14 14:28 ` rgb
2008-11-01 13:03 ` emacs-w3m question Andreas Politz
2008-11-03 11:25 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.2763.1225711681.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-06 16:51 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-27 21:48 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-28 10:50 ` Francis Moreau
2008-10-28 14:51 ` OtherMichael
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2022-11-01 20:25 Jon Fineman
2022-11-02 12:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-02 17:44 ` Jon Fineman
2022-11-03 11:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-08 3:58 ` Bob Newell
2022-11-02 13:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-02 17:32 ` Jon Fineman
2022-11-02 18:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-03 17:56 ` Bob Newell
2022-11-04 2:02 ` Jon Fineman
2022-11-06 22:49 ` Bob Newell
2022-11-07 6:08 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-07 6:38 ` Bob Newell
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