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Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:

> On 08 Nov 2003, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> >  Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > I feel like I've suddenly come out of the Bronze Age or
> > > something!  Long term users may not quite recall the sense of
> > > amazement that one gets after changing from standard-issue GUI
> > > word processors and such to something with the power that Emacs
> > > has.  Yikes!
> >  
> >  If you want to see impressive screen shots of the new display
> >  engine in useful action, take a look at
> >  <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>.
> 
> Maybe not so impressive as preview-latex but in the
> Screenshots-section of ECB at http://ecb.sourceforge.net there is a
> further example what is possible with the new display engine - see
> the left/top-most screenshot
> (http://ecb.sourceforge.net/screenshots/1.png).

Wow.  The evolution from Emacs from an ASCII terminal application to a
powerful, fully-graphical environment is amazing.  And I only know the
tip of the iceberg as yet.