From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Hobelmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs: a 21st century text-editor Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:42:42 -0600 Message-ID: <396h22F60np7aU1@individual.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110316699 20156 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 21:18:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 22:18:19 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8m22-0007bd-4k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:14:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mGZ-0006yw-LO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mDm-0005Ea-9c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:26:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mBk-0004lg-H0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mBk-0004dU-37 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.168.1.22] (helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D8lXd-0003NX-B4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]:1584) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42 (FreeBSD)) id 1D8lXb-000F3L-CG for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:42:55 +0000 Original-Received: from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1D8lXQ-000L7x-4p>; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:42:44 +0100 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:42:44 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 39 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net aQdbaxbKxHy1IWiImVRf3AAflngE+Rz6+dDUOQZsxIWrVXNQ8y User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:10886 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:10886 Christopher G D Tipper wrote: > 1 Text-wrapping. Text wrapping is a limitation, and it would be nice > to scroll past the edge of the screen. This is particularly acute in > my case editing XSLT scripts where line-breaks become a > presentational issue. Sometimes I actually need to compose documents > with 250 columns, and I don't appreciate emacs telling me otherwise. Do you mean that you want a horizontal scrollbar, or are you just (like me) annoyed by those arrows left and right when a line is long? BTW, emacs people: take a look at how Apple TextEdit handles long lines; that's more like in a word processor, but if you type up or down, you move in screen lines, even though it's just one line in the file. > 3 Tabbed buffers. Open buffers should be easily visible in a tabbed > layout below the menu, in the manner of XEmacs. A proper history > list would help here so that documents are persistent across > sessions. That would be nice. Having everything mostly available in a text buffer is somewhat antiquated. Similarly something like Cmd-left/right (or Ctrl-left on Windows/Linux) would be nice for switching between Tabs. > 4 File Dialogs. I use dlgopen.el on Windows, which gets rid of the > most serious interface issue of all, the lack of modern file > dialogs. It wouldn't be rocket-science to adapt the interface to > support this. XEmacs file dialogs are unusable IMHO. I use drag-and-drop to put files into emacs sometimes (on the Mac), but having it recognize standard open/close keymappings would be nice too, as would be dialogs. > 5 Paste replaces edit. This idea that when I paste I end up with both > the replacement text and the old text does not belong in the modern > idiom. This is a real versioning issue when the replacement text > scrolls past the bottom of the screen. I think this is just an > old-fashioned feature that never got updated. And make mark and backspace delete the marked text.