Re: emacs vs vs.net

[Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>]

"William Shieh" <gwshieh@hotmail.com> writes:

> hi,
> 
> i'm very new to email and the system i'm using most of the time is win32.
> could someone give me some example why emacs is so powerful? from what i
> could see is that it takes more key to do a simple copy and paste than
> notepad.

I doubt that. AIUI, in most environments, simply selecting a region of
text should *automatically* place it in the kill-ring, and
hitting the middle mouse button (or for you more likely:
"chording" the left and right mouse buttons) should paste it in
spot. This is significantly *less* work than most other text
editors (though it's standard for UNIX-style systems). If the
chording doesn't do it, control-y will. In the very worst of
circumstances (but still assuming a windowed environment), you
might have to select the region and then hit alt-w before it gets
into the kill-ring, but I really doubt it: and even then, that's
no more keystrokes than in Notepad.

> i know notepad is probably not a good example, however, can anyone
> give me a good reason why you use emacs instead of vs.net from ms?

Apart from the fact that VS.net doesn't produce ELF binaries for
GNU/Linux? ;-)

It's so very, *very* customizable! ...And if there's something I
don't like about it, if I dislike it enough to change it, then I
can!

-- 
Micah J. Cowan
micah@cowan.name