From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralph Moritz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Praise for Emacs 22 from a user Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 23:04:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4464F865.7040107@gmail.com> References: <44639AB5.4090507@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0605120131l1ebd50b5t7c8dbbe5db28e8d6@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: ralphm@members.fsf.org 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 1147590552 1107 80.91.229.2 (14 May 2006 07:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 07:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 14 09:09:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfAis-0007vD-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 09:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfAis-0001Li-DY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FfAif-0001KH-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FfAie-0001JD-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FfAie-0001JA-7i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.187] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FfAkm-0003AU-K5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 May 2006 03:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so491512nfc for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 00:08:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uDLuccckpRi066bvf9GC6ilzpY7r6QshIAehB+oB9x26OaEZ8Yq6YdO6v4SSla3z5gu2cQ3ndByTl6nCD7TttbJqg2EXWBBEP127pO8md6//Cdld+wtoAO27pBGANokQUdDohcQiUDqw02a6iww1+jLwIeGBWCaSvayuzNLapqc= Original-Received: by 10.48.254.5 with SMTP id b5mr2404542nfi; Sun, 14 May 2006 00:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.0.98? ( [196.208.29.61]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id a24sm2205249nfc.2006.05.14.00.08.44; Sun, 14 May 2006 00:08:46 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0605120131l1ebd50b5t7c8dbbe5db28e8d6@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54434 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: >> I now feel confident that when I present Emacs to friends >> and colleagues, they will not immediately be put off by a >> smelly interface. > > I am curious, was there any feature in particular that they thought was > missing? many people I know felt that switching fonts was too difficult in Emacs 21. A lot of people also complained about the fact that Woe32 key bindings (C-c, C-v etc) were not available as a menu option. -- Ralph Moritz < ralphm AT members DOT fsf DOT org > Ph: +27/0 31 705 5268 (home) +27/0 72 385 0679 (mobile)