From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete] Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:47:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4E89CAFA.8070500@easy-emacs.de> References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20111003093334.0bf5d988@kuru.homelinux.net> <4E89B613.9060305@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317653271 2077 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2011 14:47:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:47:51 +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 16:47:47 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 1RAjnw-0008LL-5I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:47:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAjnv-0002LR-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAjnq-0002LK-Ai for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAjnp-00084K-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:49582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RAjno-000841-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4dbc509b.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.80.155]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LlVhP-1QcmMY4Atj-00b5td; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:47:30 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.22) Gecko/20110907 SUSE/3.1.14 Thunderbird/3.1.14 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:9LovYUh5OYDBdoc5u/RD/B1DibyLsXPpnf9JNavLC+/ ggxkY22GOitptki7Oq611Rs0Re3tgIm5ZIGIsH6OKcQL/kZrzG +goXAQAMNObHWFwzCdxJB8vKW9KGrq0nLPsuD6iqq7AYwyyPkF sxXFwnkmUfcm1ph14izyXKElCsMMb8EzGXJpqG/GSzc8VUeVu/ chPdaUtiBxf3CoR2oI/2xV81z0YVASblLKvKLejUVrfESsveBC sOkIygrtuW2+Yw45YCvTsCI/QbgReFPVXKPWdX0W2qp/DouL3m KvU9J0OA7EHh/ZaBpptdZEJLsud0b9AXEy4V7wTQ3Q9t3gtU+C Sc+kfTdPT0jjNaUaBCtSon8GoGEVejcFTNvsWqL17 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.9 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:82412 Archived-At: Am 03.10.2011 15:24, schrieb Jai Dayal: > I'm confused as to why they conducted a poll in the first place. Based on > the audience (pedantic pseudo-scientists who are simply programmers and not > scientists), Hi Jai, I'm afraid that's a little bit high-eyebrowed. Well, being ready to count any other wrong stand over nothing - however, you can do better. If people spent their lifetime to present tool like Emacs, it fairly doesn't matter being estimated a scientist or whatever artist or not. :) Beside, usability questions are fairly complicated and are complicated with Emacs in a specific way. Stay patient, cheers, Andreas