From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: page-at-a-time output for M-x shell Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:16:02 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <873a8zgp7x.fsf@galatea.local> References: <30a09a22-cd05-44b6-9b82-8a7e6c1796d5@x3g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <7bf1883b-3184-487c-a5a4-675f3e117342@l2g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <85269090-af0d-43fa-bd49-da265cbac558@p23g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <87fxd1iy86.fsf@iki.fi> <6a088d78-bfa1-46aa-bf87-6efe4d875739@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <874oth3se0.fsf@iki.fi> <76036640-c499-482c-81c0-9e0cb325e96a@k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87r5wk3o87.fsf@iki.fi> <87vdlwloau.fsf@mundaneum.com> <97a8ff74-599a-49f2-914f-acc11547022a@n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247593245 26156 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 17:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 19:40:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQlza-0007BX-6Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQlzZ-0003Vo-Gg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net CsuPnnyg7Ye4ncW68eNTBQ/LkzSE9hAoXOpDrAiwflaBjS/XhV Cancel-Lock: sha1:NGI1YTVmYjgwMzRiMTIyYWM0ZTUwMTlmZWU3MmNmYzFjYWQxNjY5Yg== sha1:EJBDfcwi1lkSoMx/2OA0cUI0qlo= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170871 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66068 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: > But the main problem I think, which is a different issue, is why the > hell Emacs has 2 functionalities that do 'basically' the same thing ?! Two? I know at least three! M-x terminal is yet another. As for mail UA, there are at least four (gnus, rmail, vm, mew), and probably many more. > Why can't it offer one and only one package that give the best of the > 2 worlds ? Because this is not a scarce world. There's nobody to strangle the offer and make you pay dearly for a few features. There's an aboundance of coders, and an aboundance of code produced, so you can choose amongst several options. If you want empty shops, URSS^W North Korea is that way. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__