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From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage?
Date: 25 Nov 2004 17:23:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vfis7tetar.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u653tyi97.fsf@gmail.com

>>>>> "Mathias" == Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

  Mathias> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

  Micha> And you can use flyspell-mode to check spelling
  Micha> interactively.
  >>
  Lee> I've tried it and I hate it.  It's too _distracting_.  I can't
  Lee> write with such a distracting feature.
  >>
  >>
  >> Distracting? From someone who uses fully justified text with
  >> fixed width fonts?

  Mathias> Different people find different things distracting.


True. Justified text is, however, the work of the devil. It's makes
normal variable width text harder to read, although it does look nicer
on page. With fixed width fonts, you don't even get that advantage. 


Cheers

Phi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-25 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-22 14:58 Efficient Emacs usage? FCC
2004-11-22 18:18 ` Phillip Lord
2004-11-22 18:47 ` Floyd L. Davidson
2004-11-22 18:58   ` FCC
2004-11-23  7:55     ` Lee Sau Dan
2004-11-23 12:20       ` FCC
2004-11-24  3:44         ` Lee Sau Dan
2004-11-23  7:49 ` Lee Sau Dan
2004-11-23 12:34   ` FCC
2004-11-23 18:21     ` Micha Feigin
2004-11-23 20:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-24  3:30     ` Lee Sau Dan
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1043.1101236972.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-24  3:33       ` Lee Sau Dan
2004-11-24 12:11         ` Phillip Lord
2004-11-25 17:02           ` Mathias Dahl
2004-11-25 17:23             ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2004-11-26  7:44               ` Mathias Dahl
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1072.1101243703.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-24  8:59       ` FCC
2004-11-24  9:04         ` Brian Elmegaard
2004-11-24 15:39           ` FCC
2004-11-24  7:55   ` John Paul Wallington
2004-12-01 18:30   ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-11-23 11:31 ` Marco Gidde

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