From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Elmegaard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: 23 Mar 2005 08:29:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111562845 25269 80.91.229.2 (23 Mar 2005 07:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 08:27:25 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DE0Gv-00077E-QI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DE0YN-0005rx-Kk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:45:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!sunsite.dk!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.166.154.230 Original-X-Trace: DXC=N1RegA0oDB_U2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25105 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25105 David Kastrup writes: > Well, then let them use it. Why should you force Emacs onto them if > they don't want it? Because I prefer to develop an emacs mode instead of a winedt one and because they should use BAT. > process at best, and it has to be done carefully in order not to tie > oneself too closely to the technology du jour: Emacs' life span has Good points. > use Emacs for editing text widgets, but the application itself is > probably better left apart from Emacs. all right then. -- Brian (remove the sport for mail) http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be/be.html