From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: evidence: nano(1) is better than Emacs Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:51:23 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87egt4ulg4.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416092129 14631 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 22:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 22:55:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 23:55:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpmFS-0003lZ-JP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 23:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42264 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpmFS-0002RQ-96 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:55:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YWebyDkuf5UaGf14M14qh+cuC+E= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208665 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100943 Archived-At: When I did my daily routine the other day - hacking hq.af.mil and such - I made an interesting discovery: and I have a screenshot to prove it! nano(1) is actually better than Emacs at displaying: /etc/apt/sources.list Here is the screenshot [1]. nano is a text editor that many people begin to use when they enter the Unix or Linux world. At that point, gedit doesn't do anything (besides it reminds you of notepad), Emacs is too vast, Vim doesn't make any sense whatsoever (especially not when you still use the non-US keyboard layout), and Eclipse is - well, part of the reason why those people were exiled to the Unix world to begin with. Then, after a year or so, people move on to get more power. nano leads to Emacs, just as karate leads to muay Thai, and smoking pot leads to carpentry. So we can absolutely not be content with being inferior to nano in any way! Question: Does anyone know of a package to get that sweet look? If not, this is an excellent project for any bunch of school kids - be it in kindergarten or Ph.D. Computer Science! [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/dumps/nano_emacs.png -- underground experts united