From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven Degutis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 23:39:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fvy2vyht.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b2ed9adb63f8d04dbf12c81 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367728808 20332 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2013 04:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 04:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 05 06:40:07 2013 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 1UYqk3-0003d8-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 06:40:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYqk2-0007R3-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 00:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39859) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYqjq-0007Qy-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 00:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYqjn-0001fX-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 00:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-da0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::235]:64946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYqjn-0001fS-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 00:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f53.google.com with SMTP id o9so1350995dan.40 for ; Sat, 04 May 2013 21:39:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=xGqZCzn8TgLnnQyO8ZMwH8sI7laBmI+tUatHca+ZzcI=; b=GoCxlfGkbmBSyMnU8OQiX5r34kP5tpAqHcn+otFW4H6Qg9cl1ANX2uUyJZ0vAignve 3HoaXvY+wbo9VsGGvihxdEEJF3vVlQoASFFC1poa0Uh+lm4zvXYgPoZJyJKd56WlDf4D 6Cr0y0KJ55K4OkJqmNyojpAZlIXz43tr3GUYDba367HUyNr/kcV6ElcyNTpu9hMlNsmd EXAq07TPv4idxgMUB4YcHkP2N09PL6tFAW5Tfvt8S6dtTgsrUe7c51GZMyheOzvUkfQH jev0mjK6MZTl72j6J9pjmdty5u7XdNcuhEXYNdK0RI8UVdThBLAi8d1Np+7I2JLyH7tS ejkw== X-Received: by 10.68.216.165 with SMTP id or5mr20422675pbc.152.1367728790583; Sat, 04 May 2013 21:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.70.58.231 with HTTP; Sat, 4 May 2013 21:39:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fvy2vyht.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::235 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:90495 Archived-At: --047d7b2ed9adb63f8d04dbf12c81 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > That's rather the other way you should ask: what's the use case of using a > bitmap _graphic_ screen to edit _text_? Because then my syntax highlighting and color theme has access to some several million colors, not just 256. This, plus viewing it on a retina display, and suddenly the text I stare at all day looks quite beautiful. --047d7b2ed9adb63f8d04dbf12c81 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
That's rather the other way you shoul= d ask: what's the use case of using=A0a bitmap _graphic_ screen to edit= _text_?

Because then my syntax highlighting and color the= me has access to some several million colors, not just 256. This, plus view= ing it on a retina display, and suddenly the text I stare at all day looks = quite beautiful.
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