From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "like other editors" [ Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:02:59 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20111003093334.0bf5d988@kuru.homelinux.net> <4E89B613.9060305@mousecar.com> <20111003154119.37845657@kuru.homelinux.net> <4E89D1EE.1000105@mousecar.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317657929 3278 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2011 16:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:05:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 18:05:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAl1A-000691-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:05:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38101 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAl19-0002oJ-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAl0z-0002bS-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAl0u-000624-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAl0t-00061Q-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RAl0t-00061i-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:05:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:05:07 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:05:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pUU5+wH8lclQWvSRjWnytcQkl4I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82418 Archived-At: ken writes: > On 10/03/2011 09:41 AM Suvayu Ali wrote: >> Hi Ken, >> >> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:18:11 -0400 >> ken wrote: >> >>> Secondly, there are places in the world where people haven't ever >>> used Windows; instead, their first and only experience with computers >>> is with Linux. What sense can it make to them that emacs' behavior >>> is changed simply to mimic some other editor they've never seen or >>> used? >> >> You wrongly assumed by modern editors I was talking about Windows >> editors[1], > > No, I wasn't assuming you were talking about Word. Since you didn't say which > editor you were talking about, I just picked Word as a foil. If you re-read my > post, you'll see on my first reference to Word I preceded it by "e.g.", implying > the same thereafter. Dont you feel using Word (Windows only non programmers editor) was a little far fetched considering the plethora of cross platform programmers editors including and not limited to emacs and vi? Never mind eclipse etc as well as all the FOSS Gnu/Linux stuff like gedit etc?