From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs vs vs.net Date: 29 Oct 2003 08:48:41 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067410310 12286 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 06:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 07:51:47 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 1AEkBG-0001iy-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 07:51:47 +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 1AEkB9-0007QZ-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:51:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEkAy-0007Pk-JO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:51:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEk6N-0005sr-Iw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEk6M-0005qm-U9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:46:43 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <3f9f2256$1@news.microsoft.com> (gwshieh@hotmail.com) 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:13597 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13597 > From: "William Shieh" > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:13:43 -0800 > > 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? Because it's infinitely customizable (that is, you can change its default behavior in many ways that are unimaginable with other similar software), and has lots of powerful features that allow you to do almost anything you can think of. > from what i could see is that it takes more key to do a simple copy > and paste than notepad. How so? Emacs supports the same paradigm for copy/paste as any other GUI program: mark the text to be copied with the mouse, then click the mouse's right button at the destination. Doesn't this work for you? > can anyone give me a good reason why you use emacs instead of vs.net > from ms? One good reason is that Emacs is available on almost any platform out there, not only on Windows. Another good reason is that Emacs has packages bundled with it that allow you to do things beyond anything vs.net could ever have. Like email, for example (I read your message and am typing this response in Emacs). Yet another good reason is that Emacs is free software, so you can study the sources, understand how it works much better than any docs could ever describe, and fix any bug/misfeature without being at the mercy of the vendor.