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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mail-yank-original problem
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:34:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppga7un5.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19451401-1488-40de-a211-eb37feecaa3a@googlegroups.com

Hans BKK <hansbkk@gmail.com> writes:

>> I actually don't know why Emacs is so conservative
>> color-wise. Colors are helpful (productive), but they
>> also make you feel good, so you get even more
>> productive.
>
> Emacs' traditions precede GUI/mouse/color support.
> Everyone's taste differs.

Colors don't have anything to do with the GUI or the
mouse. When I was a kid there were colors on the PC but
no GUI, while the Mac had a GUI in Finder (which
couldn't be used without the mouse), nonetheless
everything was black and white. I never use either GUI
or mouse and haven't mentioned either.

> Look at it as a 'toolkit' allowing you to config/code
> your own editor. If that seems burdensome or too
> difficult then maybe another editor more in tune with
> the current mainstream zeitgeist would suit you
> better

?!

Here is 52 files of configuration and extension in
Elisp:

http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs.html

> No comment on the 'kids & girls'.

OK, then I'm not going to comment either on the quality
of your post. Or did I...

-- 
underground experts united


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-08 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5181.1404991730.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-10 21:23 ` mail-yank-original problem Emanuel Berg
2014-07-10 23:03   ` Robert Thorpe
2014-07-11  6:57     ` saint
2014-08-08 14:00 ` Hans BKK
2014-08-08 17:34   ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.5242.1405033432.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-11  0:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-10  7:31 saint

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