Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Marco Parrone <marc0@autistici.org>]

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Niels Freimann <nfreimann@firemail.de> writes:

> Hi David,
> 
> 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. 

I (and likely many others) believe the opposite.

> Its rather a *nostalgia* for older users like we are.

I'm not an old user, but I like using the tty, now you can see that
this is not a nostaligia.

X11 is big, slow, buggy, it sucks resources, it promotes for wasting
time and resources (see themes, backgrounds, and likewise) and for
giving more attention to the form instead than to the contents.

Using the tty is more effective, less distracting, and gives you a
more uniform interface and a more eyes-friendly too.

> Furthermore my argument was removing anything else than gtk2 as X11
> target,

Sometimes X11 is needed, and if you don't need the toolbar and the
scrollbar then using GTK(2) is only a waste of hardware resources and
so user time.

Bye.

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