From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Micah Cowan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs vs vs.net Date: 28 Oct 2003 22:56:32 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067411296 13916 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 07:08:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 08:08:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEkRC-0002KK-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:08:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEkK8-0001KY-1C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:00:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!posted1.newshosting.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fa521cf7.news.calweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=Z8aUIML6bK^RnemNJKe7\X7gYX5fdemcPo06QV; o2ToV=K@Bg]nNNOSY9RJiLEXhF\1E2R Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@calweb.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117666 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13599 "William Shieh" 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