Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[Mario Lassnig <mario@lassnig.net>]

On 3/1/11 3:05 PM, Cthun wrote:
> Saying version control is for novels is like saying
> the purpose of Usenet is pointless bickering, Janney; saying it's for
> source code is like saying the purpose of Usenet is for discussion. Your
> mistake is rather ironic, though, considering your own considerable
> recent contributions to the misuse of Usenet for pointless bickering,
> Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, Cthun?

> Plain, unformatted ASCII text, Janney, which is hardly useful for
> writing novels and articles. Novels tend to contain italics and other
> formatting here and there, Janney, whereas articles frequently contain
> scientific and mathematical symbols that do not exist in ASCII or
> sometimes even Unicode, and tables, graphs, charts, and formatted
> equations that cannot be represented nicely using a grid of characters.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, Cthun?

> Occasionally hitting control-S and backing up your
> files regularly is a lot easier than learning Emacs, Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, Cthun?

> Version control systems are inherently complex and
> inherently client/server oriented, Janney; if they weren't they'd be
> useless for their primary purpose, which is to enable collaborative
> software development, Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, Cthun?

> It's rather less work than struggling to learn, and later struggling to
> remember, those "few key strokes in Emacs", Janney. Not to mention the
> sprained wrists from tying your hands into pretzels trying to hit seven
> different modifier keys simultaneously, Janney. Emacs is not a text
> editor, Janney, it is a keyboard-implemented version of the game "Twister".

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, Cthun?

> And it remains true that using SVN to "develop" a
> novel is like using a hammer to insert a screw, Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do 
with Lisp, Cthun?